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Sir Toby, in Twelfth Night, is counselling Cesario (really Viola in disguise) to prepare herself to do battle with the redoubtable Sir Andrew:
That defence thou hast, betake thee to't: of what
nature the wrongs are thou hast done him, I know
not; but thy intercepter, full of despite, bloody as
the hunter, attends thee at the orchard-end:
dismount thy tuck, be yare in thy preparation, for
thy assailant is quick, skilful and deadly.
A tuck is an old word for a thin straight sword, a rapier. The word is related to "stick" and "stock" (in the sense of a piece of wood) but the initial "S" is worn off. Shakespeare uses this word when Falstaff calls Prince Hal a "vile standing tuck" meaning that he is as skinny as a rapier.
"Dismount" means unsheathe. Remember in Hamlet how Osric calls the sheath and baldrick for a sword the "carriage"? Well it is as if the sword is carried by its "carriage", but when it comes time to use it, it much step out of the coach, which is to say, it must be unsheathed. It's a metaphor.
So what Sir Toby is telling Viola is to get out her sword and defend herself.
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