tuft
/tʌft/ verb C2- To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
- To form into tufts.
- To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
- To be formed into tufts.
He/she/it tufts · Past tufted · Past participle tufted · -ing form tufting
Verb forms
- Base form
- tuft
- He/she/it
- tufts
- Past
- tufted
- Past participle
- tufted
- -ing form
- tufting
From the library
On these his eager, questioning eyes were fixed, and I saw on his keen, alert face that tightening of the lips, that quiver of the nostrils, and concentration of the heavy, tufted brows which I knew so well.
He flung the fire pot on the ground, and some of the red coals lit a tuft of dried moss that flared up, as all the Council drew back in terror before the leaping flames.
But here is a debt to pay before I go.” He strode forward to where Shere Khan sat blinking stupidly at the flames, and caught him by the tuft on his chin.
When he had lifted one-third of himself clear of the ground, he stayed balancing to and fro exactly as a dandelion tuft balances in the wind, and he looked at Rikki-tikki with the wicked snake’s eyes that never change their expression, whatever the snake may be thinking of.
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