Tack
[tæk]
Definition
(noun.) sailing a zigzag course.
(noun.) (nautical) the act of changing tack.
(noun.) a short nail with a sharp point and a large head.
(noun.) the heading or position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails.
(verb.) fasten with tacks; 'tack the notice on the board'.
(verb.) turn into the wind; 'The sailors decided to tack the boat'; 'The boat tacked'.
Typist: Merritt--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A stain; a tache.
(n.) A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
(n.) A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
(n.) That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.
(v. t.) A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
(v. t.) The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
(v. t.) The direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; -- the former when she is closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
(v. t.) A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
(v. t.) Confidence; reliance.
(v. t.) To fasten or attach.
(v. t.) Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
(v. t.) In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.
(v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.
(v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.
Typist: Sonia
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Fasten (slightly), attach, append, affix, tag.[2]. Nail (with tacks).[3]. (Naut.) Put about, change the course of.
v. n. (Naut.) Go about, tack ship.
n. Small nail.
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Definition
n. (prov.) any distinctive and permanent flavour.
n. a short sharp nail with a broad head: a fastening a long temporary stitch: the weather clew or foremost lower corner of any of the courses or of any sail set with a boom or gaff or of a flag also the rope by which such clew or tack is confined or fastened: the course of a ship in reference to the position of her sails: a determinate course the art of tacking hence a change of policy a strategical move: a shelf for drying cheese: term of a lease: adhesiveness sticky condition as of varnish &c.—v.t. to attach or fasten esp. in a slight manner as by tacks.—v.i. to change the course or tack of a ship by shifting the position of the sails: to shift one's position to veer.—adj. Tack′y adhesive viscous.
n. food generally fare esp. of the bread kind as hard tack soft tack &c.
Typed by Amalia
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
Edited by Candice
Examples
- First of all tack tarred building paper to the studding, running the strips up and down and having them catch on every third studding. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- I think I shall be able to put him on the right tack; and I am the more pleased because he is a relation of yours, Casaubon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- That is the moral you tack to the play. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Upon the outside of the studding tack building paper again, as shown at Fig. C in the first illustration. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- She could hear their tick-tack, tick-tack. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- But you must come up and tack on my patterns all the same. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Oh, how she suffered, lying there alone, confronted by the terrible clock, with its eternal tick-tack. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- When this is fastened the cloth is tacked around the remainder of the bed; being stretched as tightly as possible in every direction. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The bed cloth is first tacked to the frame beneath the slate at one corner. 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.
- An outer sole, channeled to receive the stitches, is then tacked on so that the edges of the upper are caught and retained between the two soles. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- The half of the pocket net not attached to the irons is tacked to the edge of the frame, underneath the bed, and covered with red leather, to withstand wear and for decorative effect. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Half or three-fourths-inch rods with heavy caps at the ends should be sufficient, and are easily put in place before the boards are tacked to the partition. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- 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.
- 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.
Checker: Maisie