A touchstone; hence, stone of the sort used for touchstone.
Examination or trial by some decisive standard; test; proof; tried quality.
The broadest part of a plank worked top and but, or of one worked anchor-stock fashion (that is, tapered from the middle to both ends); also, the angles of the sterntimbers at the counters.
A disposal of the ball during a game, i.e. a kick or a handball.
Origin
From Middle English touchen, tochen, from Old French tochier (whence Modern French toucher; compare French doublet toquer), from Vulgar Latin *tuccō, from Frankish *tukkōn, from Proto-Germanic *tukkōną, from Proto-Indo-European *dewk-. Displaced native Middle English rinen, from Old English hrīnan" (whence Modern rine); Middle English repen, from Old English hrepian.
Cognate with Old High German zochhōn, zuhhōn (whence German zucken ("to jerk, flinch")), German Low German tucken, tocken, Middle Dutch tocken, tucken (whence Dutch tokkelen ("to strum, pluck")), Old English tucian, tūcian (whence Modern tuck). Compare also Old High German tokkōn, tockōn. Outside Germanic, cognate to Albanian cek ("to touch"), Old Church Slavonic тъкнѫти. More at tuck, take.
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