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Tack

noun
1.
The heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails.
2.
A short nail with a sharp point and a large head.
3.
Gear for a horse.  Synonyms: saddlery, stable gear.
4.
(nautical) a line (rope or chain) that regulates the angle at which a sail is set in relation to the wind.  Synonyms: mainsheet, sheet, shroud, weather sheet.
5.
(nautical) the act of changing tack.  Synonym: tacking.
6.
Sailing a zigzag course.
verb
(past & past part. tacked; pres. part. tacking)
1.
Fasten with tacks.
2.
Turn into the wind.  Synonym: wear round.  "The boat tacked"
3.
Create by putting components or members together.  Synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack together.  "He tacked together some verses" , "They set up a committee"
4.
Sew together loosely, with large stitches.  Synonym: baste.
5.
Fix to; attach.  Synonyms: append, hang on, tack on, tag on.
6.
Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action).  Synonyms: alternate, flip, flip-flop, interchange, switch.



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"Tack" Quotes from Famous Books



... Avenger chose such a peculiar time to do his deeds—I mean, the time when no one's about the streets. Now, doesn't it stand to reason that the fellow, reading all that, and seeing the sense of it, said to himself, 'I'll go on another tack this time'? Just listen to this!" He pulled a strip of paper, part of a column cut from a newspaper, out of ...
— The Lodger • Marie Belloc Lowndes
... "hard tack" as they were called, are notoriously poor eating, but in the hands of the Confederate soldier were made to do good duty. When on the march and pressed for time, a piece of solid fat pork and a dry cracker ...
— Detailed Minutiae of Soldier life in the Army of Northern Virginia, 1861-1865 • Carlton McCarthy
... Tack or nail, only let's see you get back where we started from." Lincoln was skeptical of sailboats. He had heard about sailing "just where you wanted to go," but he had his ...
— Short Stories of Various Types • Various
... GOVERNMENT.—When the Republican party came into power in 1801, it was pledged to make reforms "to put the ship of state," as Jefferson said, "on the Republican tack." About a third of the important Federalist office-holders were accordingly removed from office, the annual speech at the opening of Congress was abolished, and the written message introduced—a custom followed ever since by our Presidents. Internal taxes were repealed, the ...
— A Brief History of the United States • John Bach McMaster
... old friend, may not I smile at some jest between myself and my pipe, but thou must tack more meaning to it than Brewster says hung on Lord Burleigh's nod? And yet in sober sadness, Myles, 't is marvel to me how thou, born to a great name and to such observance as awaits the children of wealthy houses, and ...
— Standish of Standish - A story of the Pilgrims • Jane G. Austin


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