arch. Also 7 tucquet. [Connected with TUCK sb.2; cf. TOCCATA, also OF. touchet blow, stroke (c. 1500 in Godef., Compl.).] A flourish on a trumpet; a signal for marching used by cavalry troops. (Cf. SENNET1.) Also fig.
1593. Shaks., Rich. II., I. iii. 26 (Stage direct.) Tucket. Enter Hereford, and Harold [Herald; the lists at Coventry]. Ibid. (1599), Hen. V., IV. ii. 35. Then let the Trumpets sound The Tucket Sonuance, and the Note to mount. Ibid. (1601), All’s Well, III. v. (Stage direct.) A Tucket afarre off. Enter old Widdow of Florence [etc.].
1605. 1st Pt. Ieronimo, I. v. (Stage direct.) A Tucket within. King. How now, what means this trumpets sound?
1623. Webster, Devil’s Law-Case, V. vi. (Stage direct.) Two tuckets by several trumpets.
1625. Markham, Soldier’s Accid., 61. The fourth [sound or signal given by the trumpet] is, Tucquet, or March; Which being hearde simplie of it selfe … Commands nothing but Marching after the Leader.
1889. W. B. Squire, in Grove, Dict. Mus., IV. 184.
1891. G. Meredith, One of our Conq., 242. A tucket of herald newspapers told the world of Victor’s returning to his London.
