tuft

IPA: tˈʌft

A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
A small clump of trees or bushes.
(historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
(historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
A surname.

(transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
(transitive) To form into tufts.
(transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
(intransitive) To be formed into tufts.

Examples of "tuft" in Sentences

The head is shaved, except a straight tuft, which is allowed to grow.
This little tuft, which is altogether white, is the Hyperborean Hills.
I remember seeing these as a little girl...oh and the tuft is the end of the little girl's ponytail I think
I didn't recognize him sitting in the choir stall at first; what caught my attention was his biretta's distinctive blue tuft, which is proper to the Institute.
-- B. togeanensis Sody, 1949: the largest species, it has sparser, shorter body than B. babyrussa and, in contrast to B. celebensis, the tail tuft is well developed.
When boys are first shaved generally in the second or third year, a tuft is left on the crown and another over the forehead; but this is not the fashion amongst adults.
ABOUT five years ago, fome men working in a quarry of that kind of ftone which in this part of the country we call tuft ■ *, at about five or fix feet below the furfiice,, in a very Iblid part of the rock, met with feveral fragments of the horns and bones of one or different animals.