Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference - tuft
Tuft
tuft
n. & v. --n. 1 a bunch or collection of threads, grass, feathers, hair, etc., held or growing together at the base. 2 Anat. a bunch of small blood-vessels. --v. 1 tr. provide with a tuft or tufts. 2 tr. make depressions at regular intervals in (a mattress etc.) by passing a thread through. 3 intr. grow in tufts. Derivatives tufty adj. Etymology: ME, prob. f. OF tofe, toffe, of unkn. orig.: for -t cf. GRAFT(1)
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I. noun see: top Date: 14th century 1. a small cluster of elongated flexible outgrowths attached or close together at the base and free at the opposite ends, a bunch of soft fluffy threads cut off short and used as ornament, clump, cluster, mound, any of the projections of yarns drawn through a fabric or making up a fabric so as to produce a surface of raised loops or cut pile, ~ed adjective ~y adjective II. verb Date: 1535 transitive verb 1. to provide or adorn with a ~, to make (a fabric) of or with ~s, to make (as a mattress) firm by stitching at intervals and sewing on ~s, intransitive verb to form into or grow in ~s, ~er noun ...Толковый словарь английского языка
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