Obs. rare–1. [ad. L. tūcētum, tuccētum ‘a kind of sausage or haggis’ (Lewis and Short); cf. It. tocchetti ‘minced meate, shread, sliced, or cut in collops’ (Florio, 1598), dim. f. tocco piece, scrap, collop.] A collop; a small piece of meat.
1653. Jer. Taylor, Serm. for Year, I. xvi. 212. The pulse and the leeks, Lavinian sausages, and the Cisalpine tucets or gobbets of condited buls flesh [cf. Schol. Persii (Du Cange) Tucetum, bubula condita apud Gallos Cisalpinos condimentis crassis oblita et macerata).
