tuckpoint

English

Verb

tuckpoint (third-person singular simple present tuckpoints, present participle tuckpointing, simple past and past participle tuckpointed)

  1. (transitive) To employ the technique of tuck pointing upon.
    • 1988 November 18, Bryan Miller, “Love Amid the Rubble”, in Chicago Reader:
      In the gangway, a younger but equally white trio, wearing clothes that have to be from Land's End or Eddie Bauer, cheerfully tuckpoints brick, while inside others are sawing, stripping wood, hammering, mixing cement.
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