tick
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- noun
- /tɪk/
- UK
:
colchón
- He raises himself on one arm as she goes to the closet and pages quickly (tick-tick-tick) through dresses on hangers.
- straw tick
- feather tick
Examples
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"Bring hot porridge, whiskey, and a straw tick," said Duncan to the manservant.
Fiction book (1999) -
The old straw tick in the cabin was surprisingly cozy despite its age.
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The feather tick I pulled into the sleeping porch after the first few nights, seeing as it was a warm spring.
Fiction book (1993) -
Curtis would pull ticks off the dog's ears.
Fiction book (1999) -
Johnny takes it home and hides it in his straw-tick mattress.
Academic text (2003) -
He raises himself on one arm as she goes to the closet and pages quickly (tick-tick-tick) through dresses on hangers.
Fiction book (2000) -
Make your bed with the dry wood, some rope, and your mattress with a flour-sack tick packed with wildflowers and pine straw until the first crop of corn, then husks.
Fiction book (2001) -
Sleeping on a soft feather tick made her feel comfortable throughout the night.
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He found a mattress with a feather tick that kept him warm during the chilly nights.
Synonyms
A mattress filled with straw or feathers for sleeping
Idioms
Compounds
- Specialized
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A small blood-sucking bug that bites animals and people and can carry Lyme disease
A small tick found in eastern North America that bites people and can give them Lyme disease
A common tick in North America that can spread diseases like Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Specialized
A tick with a hard shield on its back and mouth parts that stick out from its head
- Archaic
A disease caused by tiny germs that spreads to people from reddish-brown ticks on dogs and other animals
A game for two players who take turns marking a three by three grid to make three in a row
- Specialized
A plant with three small leaves and sticky pods that cling to clothes or animals
- UK
A small parasite that sticks to sheep and other animals and can spread disease to animals and people
- Specialized
A small blood-sucking animal without a hard shell on its back that bites animals and birds
- Specialized
A tick in the western United States that bites people and spreads Lyme disease
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word tick for a light mattress comes from an old word meaning 'cloth case' used to hold straw or feathers, and we still call that fabric ticking, which is why the mattress can be called a 'tick'.