Usually means: Cluster of threads or fibers.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word tuft:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. tuft: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. tuft: Merriam-Webster
  3. tuft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. tuft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. tuft: Collins English Dictionary
  6. tuft: Vocabulary.com
  7. Tuft, tuft: Wordnik
  8. tuft: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Tuft, tuft: Wiktionary
  10. tuft: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. tuft: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. tuft: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. TUFT: Dictionary.com
  14. tuft: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. tuft: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Tuft (aeronautics), Tuft (disambiguation), Tuft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Tuft: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. tuft: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. tuft: Rhymezone
  20. tuft: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. tuft: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Tuft: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. tuft: FreeDictionary.org
  24. tuft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. tuft: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tuft: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. tuft: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. tuft: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. TUFT: Acronym Finder

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bryological (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Tuft (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. tuft: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. T.U.F.T, tuft: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See tufted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A bunch of feathers, grass or hair, etc., held together at the base.
noun:  A cluster of threads drawn tightly through upholstery, a mattress or a quilt, etc., to secure and strengthen the padding.
noun:  A small clump of trees or bushes.
noun:  (historical) A gold tassel on the cap worn by titled undergraduates at English universities.
noun:  (historical) A person entitled to wear such a tassel.
verb:  (transitive) To provide or decorate with a tuft or tufts.
verb:  (transitive) To form into tufts.
verb:  (transitive) To secure and strengthen (a mattress, quilt, etc.) with tufts. This hinders the stuffing from moving.
verb:  (intransitive) To be formed into tufts.
noun:  A surname.

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