Tacks
[tæks]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of tacks, means to you many vacations and quarrels. For a woman to drive one, foretells she will master unpleasant rivalry. If she mashes her finger while driving it, she will be distressed over unpleasant tasks
Inputed by Ferdinand
Examples
- Such an arrangement of wire is known as a helix or solenoid, and is capable of lifting or pulling larger and more numerous filings and even good-sized pieces of iron, such as tacks. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- The cloth is then drawn over the top of the ferule, hiding the latter from sight, and is drawn down over the rubber and fastened on the under side of the rail with steel tacks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Then comes the pulling-over machine, the pincers of which draw the leather securely against the wood of the last, to which it is fastened by other tacks. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The last, made of wood, is now put in place and tacked fast by the insole tacking machine, when the upper is placed over it and fastened by two tacks to hold it in place. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Mr. Squod tacks out, all on one side, to execute the word of command; and the trooper, having smoked his pipe, lays it by. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- These tacks in the upper are driven only part way in, so that they may be easily drawn out when no longer needed. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
Inputed by Ferdinand