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tackling, vbl. n.|ˈtæklɪŋ|
Also 5–6 tak(e)lyng, 6 taclyng.
[f. tackle v. + -ing1.]
†1.
a. The furnishing of a vessel with tackle. Obs.
1486Naval Acc. Hen. VII (1896) 17 The wages of xxx marriners..for the Rigging and takeling of the same Ship.
†b. concr. The rigging of a ship; the tackle.
c1422Hoccleve Jereslaus's Wife 914 Our taklynge brast and the ship claf In two. 1526Tindale Acts xxvii. 19 The thyrde daye we cast out with oure awne hondes the tacklinge [1885 (R.V.) marg. or furniture] of the shippe. 1529Act 21 Hen. VIII, c. 12 §1 The great Cables, Halsers, Ropes, and all other Tackling..for your Royal Ships. c1615Bacon Adv. Sir G. Villiers v. §9 For tackling, as sails and cordage,..we are beholden to our neighbours for them. 1676Hubbard Happiness of People 12 If the Mast be never so well strengthened, and the Tackline never so well bound together. 1696London Gaz. No. 3176/1 Abundance of Lanthorns were hung upon the Tackling of the Ships. 1769Falconer Dict. Marine (1789) Uu ij b, Unless we adopt the obsolete word Tackling, which is now entirely disused by our mariners.
fig.1601Sir W. Cornwallis Ess. xvi. K iij b, Graue, wise, sober, temperate men,..meete to bee part of the tacklings of a Commonwealth. 1655Fuller Ch. Hist. i. i. §11 A relation as ill accoutred with tacklings, as their Ship;..unrigged in respect of time, and other circumstances.
†2.
a. Gear, furnishings, fittings, accoutrements, outfit, baggage, etc.; = tackle n. 1. Obs.
1558Ludlow Churchw. Acc. (Camden) 86 Takelynges and nayles for the great belle. 1637B. Jonson Sad Sheph. i. ii, Here's Little John hath harbord you a Deere, I see by his Tackling. a1659Lond. Chanticleers ix. in Hazl. Dodsley XII. 345 Meet me here two hours hence with all your tacklings. I'll see this bundle shall be safe. 1695J. Edwards Perfect. Script. 120 This sort of country tackling is call'd threshing⁓instruments. 1718S. Sewall Diary 25 July, I give her two Cases with a knife and fork in each; one Turtle shell tackling; the other long, with Ivory handles. 1749C. Campbell in Scots Mag. Sept. (1753) 454/2 Remember Lady Ardsheil's discharges, and all your other tackling. 1813Sir R. Wilson Pr. Diary II. 244 It is necessary that I should feast myself into a little more embonpoint, for otherwise I shall not have sufficient carcase to suspend my tackling upon.
†b. A horse's harness. Obs.
c1645Howell Lett. (1650) III. 14 If he wanted money to mend his plow or his Cart, or to buy tacklings for his horses. 1726Boston News-Let. 14 July, To be sold..two good carts, four good horses, and tackling compleat for the same. 1787‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen (1809) 45 Let me entreat you to examine your tackling well at setting out..: see that your girths are tight.
†3. Arms, weapons, instruments; also fig., esp. in phr. to stand or stick to one's tackling, to ‘stand to one's guns’, to hold one's ground, to maintain one's position or attitude: cf. tackle n. 4 b; so to hold tackling (cf. to hold tack, tack n. 11); also to give over one's tackling, to ‘lay down one's arms’, surrender, give in. Obs.
14..Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 565/36 Armamentum, takelyng. 1529More Dyaloge iv. Wks. 278/2 Than would he haue them abide by their tackeling like mighty champions. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI 160 b, Perceiuyng the kentishmen, better to stande to their taclyng, then his imagination expected. 1551T. Wilson Logike (1580) 61 b, Thus the aunswerer..maie..force the apposer to giue ouer his tacklyng, without any aduauntage gotten. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 362 Your brother..tolde me..that you haue forsaken your booke... I wishe you to..sticke still to your tackling: and as you haue begonne, so proceede. 1593in Abp. Bancroft Daung. Posit. iv. iii. 141, I thinke it a great blessing of God, that hath raised vp Martin to hold tackling with the Bishops. a1635Corbett Poems (1807) 23 Reader, unto your tackling look, For there is coming forth a book Will spoyl Joseph Barnisius The sale of Rex Platonicus. 1679Hist. Jetzer 29 An ambition to be accounted and Canonized for a Saint, which by standing stoutly to his tackling he hoped for.
†4. Fishing tackle. Obs.
1548Elyot Dict., Alopex marina..a fysshe of the sea, whyche perceyuynge the hooke to bee fastened in his bealy, byteth of the lyne aboue the taklyng, and so escapeth. 1653Walton Angler 53, I will sit down and mend my tackling. Ibid. 105 Sure, Master, yours is a better Rod, and better Tackling. 1727Philip Quarll (1816) 7 Having..caught a..dish of fish, we put up our tackling.
5. The action of the vb. tackle in mod. senses (in quots., in sense 5).
1893Daily News 14 Dec. 2/6 Cambridge's tackling stood them in capital defence. 1900Westm. Gaz. 12 Dec. 7/3 A strong Cambridge attack was foiled by the splendid tackling of the Oxford men.
6. Comb. tackling bag U.S. and Rugby Football, a stuffed bag suspended and used for practice in tackling; tackling dummy U.S. Football = tackling bag above; † tackling-ladder, a rope-ladder.
1892Outing (U.S.) Jan. 279/2 Their one special piece of apparatus is..the tackling bag, and this is..necessary to the indoor practice of a football team. 1978Rugby World Apr. 25 (Advt.), Order now for 1978–79 pre-season training the new Allander tackling bag.
1904Outing (U.S.) Dec. 367/2 The tackling dummy was used by many squads. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 51 The Japs looked like bushes, or like tackling dummies in the evening when practice was over.
1680Otway Caius Marius iii. i, My man shall meet thee there; And bring thee cords made like a tackling-ladder. |