[f. TUCK v.1 5.] A smaller net used within the great seine to gather and bring the fish to the surface. Also Tuckner, the small boat that carries the tuck-net.
1520. Lett. & Pap. Hen. VIII., XIX. 196 (P.R.O.). Vnum rethe vocatum a Tucknett … de precio .xxvj. s. viij. d.
1580. in Sussex Archæol. Collect. (1849), II. 43. [The fishermen proceeded to set down their ancient fishing customs under certain heads, called fares,… such as those used in] Tucknett Fare, Shotnett Fare, [etc.].
1848. C. A. Johns, Week at Lizard, 52. The seine is then moored, and … a smaller boat … passes within the circle of floating corks and lets down a small net, called a tuck-net.
1849. Sussex Archæol. Collect., II. 43. The boats used in Tucknett fare were called tuckners,… they were ‘used between Februarye and Aprill to goe to sea uppon the coaste for playce,’ of the burden of three ton or thereabouts.
1907. Victoria Hist. Sussex, II. 265/2. ‘Tucknett fare’ lasted from February to April, small boats called ‘tuckners’ of about 3 tons plying during that season for plaice.
