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What (who) is tuft - definition
Tuft
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Touffe; Tuft (disambiguation)
·vt To separate into tufts.
II. Tuft ·vt To adorn with tufts or with a tuft.
III. Tuft ·vi To grow in, or form, a tuft or tufts.
IV. Tuft ·noun A cluster; a clump; as, a tuft of plants.
V. Tuft ·noun A nobleman, or person of quality, especially in the English universities;
- so called from the tuft, or gold tassel, on the cap worn by them.
VI. Tuft ·noun A collection of small, flexible, or soft things in a knot or bunch; a waving or bending and spreading cluster; as, a tuft of flowers or feathers.
tuft
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Touffe; Tuft (disambiguation)
(tufts)
A tuft of something such as hair or grass is a small amount of it which is growing together in one place or is held together at the bottom.
He had a small tuft of hair on his chin.
N-COUNT: oft N of n
tuft
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Touffe; Tuft (disambiguation)
n.
1.
Knot, bunch.
2.
Cluster, group, clump.
3.
Crest, plume.
4.
(Bot.) Capitulum.
Examples of use of tuft
1. He added: ‘Cameron is like the hare, jumping from tuft to tuft and saying: Here I am!
2. It used to be thought that a tuft of badger hair protected the bearer against witchcraft.
3. Then, one of them pulled a knife, cut a tuft of her hair and slashed her shirt.
4. He draws a tuft of grass, for instance, as five or six springing, more or less parallel strokes.
5. Once, meeting at the opening – one coming, one going – they started to pass a tuft of something beak to beak.