TUFT

I. noun see: top Date: 14th century 1. a small cluster of elongated flexible outgrowths attached or close together at the base and free at the opposite ends, a bunch of soft fluffy threads cut off short and used as ornament, clump , cluster , mound , any of the projections of yarns drawn through a fabric or making up a fabric so as to produce a surface of raised loops or cut pile, ~ed adjective ~y adjective II. verb Date: 1535 transitive verb 1. to provide or adorn with a ~, to make (a fabric) of or with ~s, to make (as a mattress) firm by stitching at intervals and sewing on ~s, intransitive verb to form into or grow in ~s, ~er noun