tackn.1
/tak/, U.S. /tæk/ I. That which fastens or attaches, etc.
1.
a. That which fastens one thing to another, or things together: applied to a fibula or clasp, a buckle, a hook or stud fitting into an eye or loop, a nail, or the like. Obsolete except as in senses 2, 3.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun]
tacka1400
bracec1440
tachec1500
a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS lii. 410 He bot a bite þat made vs blak, Til fruit weore tied on treo wiþ tak; O fruit for anoþer.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 485/2 Takke (H., P. or botun), fibula, fixula.
a1513 W. Dunbar Ballat Passioun in Poems (1998) I. 36 On to the crose of breid and lenth..Syn tyit him vp with greit irne takkis.
1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas A tacke or hooke, vid. Buckle, Clasp.
1670 J. Eachard Grounds Contempt of Clergy 70 The Tacks put into the Loops did couple the Curtains of the Tent, and sew the Tent together.
1696 London Gaz. No. 3228/4 Lost.., 3 pair of black Stays,..one with black Buckles, in black Tacks and black Loops.
b. The frænum of the tongue (in a tongue-tied person).
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > types of sinew, tendon, or ligament > [noun] > of tongue
tack1671
1671 Livingston Let. in W. K. Tweedie Select Biogr. (1845) I. 247 The sight of the father's danger brake the tack of a son's tongue who was tongue-tacked from birth.
2. spec.
a. (perhaps originally short for tack-nail n. at Compounds 1b.) A small sharp-pointed nail of iron or brass, usually with a flat and comparatively large head, used for fastening a light or thin object to something more solid, especially in a slight or temporary manner, so as to admit of easy undoing.Tacks are distinguished according to their use, as carpet-tack, one used for fixing a carpet on the floor; their action, as thumbtack, one pushed in with the thumb, as a drawing-pin; their material, as brass tack, iron tack, tin-tack n. to come (also get) down to brass tacks: see brass n. Phrases 2; see also tin-tack n. Phrases.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail > with flat head
tack1574
clasp-nail1721
flat nail1850
thumbtack1884
1463 [see tack-nail n. at Compounds 1b].
1574 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 237 Tackes One Thowsand.
a1585 Ld. Polwart Flyting with Montgomerie 558 His lugs..That to the Tron hes tane so many a tacke.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxiv. xiv. 514 Yron..for nailes, studs, and tackes, emploied about greeves and leg-harneis.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 51 Drive in a small Tack on each side.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 292/1 Two sorts of tacks used by [shoemakers], the Sole Tack..and the Heel Tack.
1745 P. Thomas True Jrnl. Voy. South-Seas 259 The Scale..is made of Bambo, the Divisions distinguished by small Brass Tacks.
1851 D. Jerrold St. Giles & St. James (new ed.) xvi, in Writings I. 168 At his work, driving tin tacks into a baby's coffin.
1903 A. H. Lewis Boss 119 Let's cut out th' polite prelim'naries,..an' come down to tacks.
b. (See quot. 1847)
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > dress, robe, or gown > peg for hanging dresses on
tack1847
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 845/2 A wooden peg for hanging dresses on is sometimes called a tack.
3. Technical uses.
a. Horticulture. A fastening for shoots, etc., consisting of a strip or band secured at each end to a wall or the like.
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the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > equipment and buildings > [noun] > fibre or cloth to tie plants
tack1545
Russia mat1737
shreds1796
mat1824
raffia1850
fillis1900
1545 Rates Custome House sig. avj Corke takkes the thousande x.s.
1615 W. Lawson Country Housewifes Garden (1626) 7 To plant Apricockes, Cheries, and Peaches, by a wall, and with tacks, and other meanes to spread them vpon, and fasten them to a wall.
1658 J. Evelyn tr. N. de Bonnefons French Gardiner 34 They do extrtamly [sic] ill, when they fagot and bundle together a great many smal twigs, in one tack.
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. xxix. 41 In Tacking for the first time after the Pruning.
b. Plumbing. A strip of lead having one end soldered to a pipe, and the other fastened to a wall or support.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > conduit, channel, or tube > pipe > other parts of pipes
bum1570
nipple1574
rider1728
shoe1770
nose-pipe1787
tack1823
box valve1833
bell end1851
taft1877
taft joint1891
pipe ear1905
spud1905
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 408 Two broad pieces of lead, called tacks, are attached to the back lap-joints and spread out, right and left, for fastening the [socket] pipes to the wall by means of wall-hooks of iron.
1877 S. S. Hellyer Plumber ii. 33 When there are no chases, and the pipes are fixed on tacks, the tacks should be strong.
c. Basket-Making. A size of willow rod, usually 3 ft. long.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > treated or processed textiles > [noun] > rods for basket making
tack1912
threepenny1912
1912 T. Okey Introd. Art of Basket-making ii. 6 White and buff rods are sorted into tacks from 2 ft. 6 in. or 3 ft. to 3 ft. 6 in.
1953 A. G. Knock Willow Basket-work (ed. 5) 9 The old trade names..three feet, Tacks; four feet, Short-Small; five feet, Long-Small.
1961 L. G. Allbon Basic Basketry ii. 11 Willow is sold by the bolt... The rods are sorted..on the farm into lengths... Local usage often gives special names to the sizes.., such as Tack or Short Smalls (3 ft.), Smalls (4 ft.),..and so on.
1973 B. Maynard Mod. Basketry from Start 171 Tacks, term used for 3 ft willow rods.
4.
a. An act of tacking or fastening together, now esp. in a slight or temporary way; a stitch, esp. a long slight stitch used in fastening seams, etc., preparatory to the permanent sewing; a very slight fastening or tie, by which a thing is loosely held, as hanging by a tack.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > stitch > tack
tack1705
French tack1904
1705 J. Vanbrugh Confederacy v. ii If dear mother will give us her blessing, the parson shall give us a tack [cf. tack v.1 1c].
1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (at cited word) It hings by a tack, it has a very slight hold.
1878 W. Dickinson Gloss. Words & Phrases Cumberland (ed. 2) Teck, Tack, a stitch, ‘A teck i' time seavvs nine’.
1910 N.E.D. at Tack Mod. Give it a tack, to hold it together until there is time to stitch it.
b. Adhesiveness, tackiness; esp. in Bookbinding, ‘a slight stickiness remaining in leather before the varnish or dressing is quite dry’ (C. Davenport).
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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > bookbinding equipment > [noun] > materials > leather > tackiness of
tack1908
1908 Academy 11 Apr. 656/1 It is very cunningly reproduced, even to the extent of a suggestion of a slight ‘tack’ belonging to old leather.
II. Nautical and derived senses. (Sense 5 is a special application of 1, and is the origin of tack v.1 7a, whence again comes sense 6 here.)
5. in extended use.1780 S. Curwen Jrnl. & Lett. 22 June (1864) 277 Discouraged from proceeding further by water,..and taking, as the sailors phrase it, our London tack on board, [we] proceeded the next stage of fifteen miles.1820 A. Gifford MS. Acc. 7 Sept. We took our land tacks on board of our waggon, and directed our course west souwest for New London.† c. tack of a flag: see quot. 1794. Obsolete.
a. A rope, wire, or chain and hook, used to secure to the ship's side the windward clews or corners of the courses (lower square sails) of a sailing ship when sailing close hauled on a wind; also the rope, wire, or lashing used to secure amidships the windward lower end of a fore-and-aft sail. to bring, get, haul, or put the tacks aboard (= to the board), to haul the tacks into such a position as to trim the sails to the wind, to set sail. to bring or have the starboard or port tacks aboard, to set the sails to, or sail with, the wind on the side mentioned. Also transferred used allusively in reference to travelling by land.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > rigging > [noun] > running rigging > rope for securing windward edge or corner
bowlinec1330
main-bowlines1466
main-tack1466
tack1481
fore-tack1669
1481–90 Howard Househ. Bks. (Roxb.) 111 My Lord paid him for iij. hausers, a peir takkes, a ratling line for Chewdes..xv.s.
1486 in M. Oppenheim Naval Accts. & Inventories Henry VII (1896) 13 A payre of takkes & a payr of shets weying dccxlj lb.
1589 L. Ward in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 648 We..brought our tacks aboord and stood along West by North and West larboord tacked.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Coytes, Tackes; great Ropes vsed about the (maine) sayle of a ship.
1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 28 The wind veares, git your star-boord tacks aboord.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 23 Tackes are great ropes which hauing a wall-knot at one end seased into the clew of the saile, and so reeued first thorow the chestres, and then commeth in at a hole in the ships sides, this doth carry forward the clew of the saile to make it stand close by a wind.
1694 Philos. Trans. 1693 (Royal Soc.) 17 984 They must there bring the contrary Tack on Board [i.e. to put the vessel on the other tack].
1747 Gentleman's Mag. Nov. 521/2 The wind shifted 3 or 4 points, which obliged us to tack, and make more sail, by hauling our main tack on board.
1825 H. B. Gascoigne Path to Naval Fame 52 To set each Course the Tacks they Haul on Board, Then drag the Sheets aft, as they can afford.
1846 A. Young Naut. Dict. The tack of a fore and aft sail is the rope which keeps down its lower forward clue; and of a studding sail that which keeps down its lower outer clue. The tack of a lower studding~sail is called the Out-Haul.
b. The lower windward corner of a sail, to which the tack (rope or chain) is attached.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > lower corner(s) of sail > tack
tack1769
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Aboard Aboard main tack! the order to draw the main-tack, i.e. the lower corner of the main-sail, down to the chess-tree.
1851 R. Kipping Sails & Sail-making (ed. 2) 5 In all triangular sails and in those four-sided sails wherein the head is not parallel to the foot, the foremost corner at the foot is called the tack.
1904 F. T. Bullen Creatures of Sea xvii. 232 The peak of the sail is dropped and the tack hoisted; in sea parlance, the sail is ‘scandalised’.
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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > poles and staffs > line for securing flag
tack of a flag1794
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship I. 176 Tack of a Flag, a line spliced into the eye at the bottom of the tabling, for securing the flag to the haliard.
6.
a. An act of tacking (tack v.1 7); hence, the direction given to a ship's course by tacking; the course of a ship in relation to the direction of the wind and the position of her sails; a course or movement obliquely opposed to the direction of the wind; one of a consecutive series of such movements to one side and the other alternately made by a sailing vessel, in order to reach a point to windward.A ship is said to be on the starboard or port tack as the wind comes from starboard or port. At each change of tack, the relative positions of the tack and sheet of the courses are reversed.
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society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > beating against the wind > tacking > a tack or beat
fetch1555
traverse?1574
tack1614
trip1700
beat1880
1614 Sir R. Dudley in S. R. Gardiner Fortescue Papers (1871) 9 Being fare more swyfte then the gallie..(espetiallye uppon a tacke).
1666 S. Pepys Diary 4 July (1972) VII. 195 Even one of our flag-men in the fleet did not know which Tacke lost the wind or which kept it in the last engagement.
1676 London Gaz. No. 1108/1 Their Admiral was lost by accident, or rather neglect of the Seamen, who omitting upon a Tack to fasten the Guns, they run all to one side, and over-set the ship.
1694 Narbrough's Acct. Several Late Voy. 165 Before the Ship could Ware and bring to upon the other Tack, She struck.
1749 Capt. Standige in Naval Chron. (1800) 3 207 We kept working the Ship in the wind's eye, tack and tack.
1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. vi. ix. 418 During the afternoon, we kept standing on our tacks, between the island of Potoe, and the Grand Ladrone.
1804 W. Layman in Ld. Nelson Disp. & Lett. (1845) V. 496 Turning to the West~ward, against the wind, some tacks do not exceed one mile.
1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy I. xiii. 215 That they should make short tacks with her, to weather the point.
1885 Law Times Rep. 53 54/1 The J. M. Stevens was proceeding under all sail close-hauled on the port tack.
b. figurative and transferred. A zigzag course on land.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > zig-zag
zigzaggery1761
tack1788
zigzagging1827
Major-Mitchelling1900
zig1978
1788 J. May Jrnl. 5 May (1873) (modernized text) 31 I..advanced as fast as possible to finish my land tacks.
1813 Salem Gaz. 22 Oct. 3/2 Saw 2 four horse wagons, standing abreast, upon their larboard tacks, head towards us.
1854 J. L. Stephens Incidents Trav. Central Amer. 363 I could not walk, so I beat up making the best tacks I could, and stopping every time I put about.
1893 ‘Q’ Delectable Duchy 305 Bontigo's Van..scaling the acclivity..in a series of short tacks.
7. figurative.
a. A course or line of conduct or action; implying change or difference from some preceding or other course.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > [noun] > (a) course of conduct or action
wayeOE
pathOE
waya1225
tracea1300
line13..
dancea1352
tenor1398
featc1420
faction1447
rink?a1500
footpath1535
trade1536
vein1549
tract1575
course1582
road1600
country dance1613
track1638
steeragea1641
rhumb1666
tack1675
conduct1706
walk1755
wheel-way1829
1675 V. Alsop Anti-Sozzo i. 29 No man more reall when he offers an Injury, nor more complemental in his Courtesies; for he's just now standing upon a Tack.
1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 68 His Business will be to follow the Loudest Cry, and make his Tack with the Wind.
1795 E. Burke Let. to Ld. Auckland in Wks. IX. Pref. 22 Through our publick life, we have generally sailed on somewhat different tacks.
1811 T. Creevey in H. Maxwell Creevey Papers (1904) I. vii. 140 They are upon a new tack in consulting publick opinion.
1901 Scotsman 8 Mar. 6/5 The bill..seemed to proceed upon the wrong tack.
b. A circuitous course of conduct.
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1844 J. Ballantine Miller of Deanhaugh v. 117 Your nephew..canna be up to sae mony shifts an' tacks as you.
III. That which is tacked on or appended.
8.
a. Something tacked on or attached as an addition or rider; an addendum, supplement, appendix; spec. in parliamentary usage, a clause relating to some extraneous matter, appended, in order to secure its passing, to a bill, esp. a bill of supply.
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society > law > written law > [noun] > clause > types of clause
amendment1581
sanction1651
tack1705
money clause1844
conscience clause1859
interpretation clause1897
joker1904
society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > parts of a written composition > [noun] > addition or appendix
supplement1523
appendix1549
referendary1581
supply1584
postscript1596
corollary1603
annexary1605
annexe1625
appendage1651
streamer1696
tack1705
taga1734
rider1813
pendant1837
overmatter1887
afterword1890
1705 in T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 10 Oct. (O.H.S.) I. 54 All the World's a general Tack Of one thing to another. Why then about one Honest Tack Do Fools make such a Pother?
1712 J. Swift Jrnl. to Stella 10 May (1948) II. 532 The Parlmt will hardly be up till June. We were like to be undone some days ago with a Tack.
a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1734) II. 402 Some Tacks had been made to Money-Bills in King Charles's time.
1768 Ld. Hillsborough in North Car. Col. Rec. VII. 868 Appointed by a Law..especially passed for that purpose, and not by way of Tack to a Law for other purposes.
1787 Minor i. xiv. 52 My mother to this added the following tack.
1879 W. Minto Defoe v. 64 The Lords refused to pass the Money Bill till the tack was withdrawn.
b. tack-on: the act of tacking something on, or that which is tacked on or added. colloquial.
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1905 Outlook 11 Nov. 664/1 She has not the passion for a tack-on which is general in this country.
9. dialect (some doubtfully belonging here).
a. A hanging shelf: see quot. 1847.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > stand > [noun] > shelf
skelf1396
shelfc1405
tack1446
binkc1520
bank1574
bracket1635
hanging shelf1726
wall-plat1841
pluteus1895
1446 in E. Hobhouse Church-wardens' Accts. (1890) 85 It. y payde to Hurneman for ij takys vd.
?c1730 J. Haynes Dorsetshire Vocab. in Notes & Queries (1883) 21 July 45/2 A tack, a shelf.
1847 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words II. 845/2 Tack,..a shelf. A kind of shelf made of crossed bars of wood suspended from the ceiling, on which to put bacon, &c.
1862 T. Hughes in Macmillan's Mag. 5 246/1 An ther wur beacon upon rack An plates to yet it upon tack.
b. Each of the two nibs or handles of a scythe.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > harvesting equipment > [noun] > reaping tools > scythe > parts of
sneadc1000
snath1574
tacka1825
pole1828
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Tack,..the handle of a sithe.
1892 P. H. Emerson Son of Fens 131 Some on 'em fitting new sticks to the scythes, some on 'em putting in tacks.
c. Coal Mining. A temporary prop or scaffold: see quots.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > pit supports
yoking1653
set1830
crib1839
tub1839
wedging crib1839
cribbing1841
ring crib1849
tack1849
tymp1883
1849 G. C. Greenwell Gloss. Terms Coal Trade Northumberland & Durham 54 Tack, a small prop of coal, sometimes left..to support it until the kirving is finished, except knocking out the tack.
1883 W. S. Gresley Gloss. Terms Coal Mining Tack,..(Som[erset].) A wooden scaffold put into a pit-shaft for temporary purposes.
IV. As a quality.† 11. Phrases.† b. to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack): to be a match for; to hold at bay. Obsolete.† c. to bear, hold tack, to be substantial, strong, or lasting; to hold out, endure, hold one's own.† d. to hold, keep tack, stand to tack: see quots.† e. to be half tack with: (?) to be midway between in position or quality. Obsolete.
10.
a. Hold; holding quality; adherence, endurance, stability, strength, substance, solidity. Now dialect.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > strength > [noun] > durability
tack1412
durableness1579
durability1593
durance1599
duration1637
wearability1927
the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > stability, fixity > [noun]
stablenessa1300
tack1412
steadfastnessc1450
surenessc1450
stability1470
radicationa1500
constance1509
steadiness1530
certitudea1533
firmance1533
staidness1556
establishment1561
settledness1571
settling1582
state1597
groundedness1601
inviscerationa1631
setness1642
unmalleableness1644
fixedness1647
poise1649
inveteracy1716
well-foundedness1735
fixity1791
unmalleability1828
deep-rootedness1860
instatement1877
steady state1885
hard and fastness1897
the mind > emotion > calmness > patience > [noun] > forbearance or tolerance
mercya1225
tholea1325
patiencyc1350
patiencea1382
abidingc1384
sustentationc1384
tack1412
tolerancya1556
digesture1567
toleration1582
acceptance1586
forbearance1599
brooking1624
digestion1653
tolerance1765
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy ii. 1868 Who þat geynstryueth schal haue litel tak.
c1425 Cast. Persev. 2987 in Macro Plays 166 Tresor, tresor, it hathe no tak.
1570 T. Tusser Hundreth Good Pointes Husbandry (new ed.) f. 29v What tacke in a pudding sayth gredy gut wringer.
1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie lxvi. 404 There will neuer bee any holde or tacke in it.
1651–66 J. Caryl Expos. Job (1676) (xxii. 25) 2255 He should find..that there was tack in it, that it was solid silver, or silver that had strength in it.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) Tack,..hold, confidence, reliance. There is no tack in such a one, he is not to be trusted.
b. Adhesive quality, stickiness: cf. tacky adj.2 Used esp. in Printing.
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society > communication > printing > inking equipment > [noun] > ink > qualities of ink
tack1876
plucking1952
hold-out1965
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > [noun] > adhesion > adhesive quality
stickiness1689
adhesiveness1721
stick1853
tack1876
tackiness1883
clinginess1899
1876 Gilder's Man. 28 Let your work stand until so dry as only to have sufficient ‘tack’ to hold your leaf.
1939 Printing Feb. 27/1 Where excess tack is attributed to these rollers, it is frequently found that the complainant is..referring to natural rubber rollers rather than synthetics.
1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset xvi. 243 Ink of low tack fills in shadow areas more readily, whilst high tack may pull the surface of a coated paper, if the separation is quick.
1971 Engineering Apr. 17/1 A suitable adhesive..to give a reasonable tack.
1972 Physics Bull. Nov. 665/3 Tack, with prepreg materials, the degree of stickiness of the resin.
1979 G. A. Glaister Gloss. Bk. (ed. 2) 469/1 If an ink has insufficient tack it will not print sharply.
a. to hold, rarely have, tack with (to), to hold one's own with, hold one's ground with, keep up with; to be even with or equal to; to match. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > equal, match, or rival
matchc1400
to hold, rarely have, tack with (to)1412
equalize15..
mate1509
touch1530
to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack)1555
equal1590
egall1591
countermatch1600
to weigh with (also even with)1600
emulate1602
side1605
compeer1608
pair1619
mount1628
amate1642
to hold weight witha1643
to be (also prove oneself) a match for1712
peel1726
to hold the sticks toa1817
to bear or stand comparison with1845
see1861
tie1888
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > fight (a battle, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > be a match for in battle
to hold, rarely have, tack with (to)1412
to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack)1555
1412–20 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. 4259 Here lith on ded, þer a-noþer wounded, So þat þei myȝt with them haue no tak.
a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Fiiiiv A thousande pounde with lyberte may holde no tacke.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 71 Secular Priests, whom no English Iesuit is able to hold tacke withall.
1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 101 The incomparable Crichtoun had,..held tack to all the disputants.
1658 J. Harrington Prerogative Pop. Govt. i. xii. 125 Fourteen years had their Common-wealth held tacke with the Romans, in courage, conduct, and virtue.
c1695 in Curwen Hist. Booksellers (1873) 29 To make the parallel hold tack, Methinks there's little lacking.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > make equal [verb (transitive)] > equal, match, or rival
matchc1400
to hold, rarely have, tack with (to)1412
equalize15..
mate1509
touch1530
to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack)1555
equal1590
egall1591
countermatch1600
to weigh with (also even with)1600
emulate1602
side1605
compeer1608
pair1619
mount1628
amate1642
to hold weight witha1643
to be (also prove oneself) a match for1712
peel1726
to hold the sticks toa1817
to bear or stand comparison with1845
see1861
tie1888
society > armed hostility > armed encounter > contending in battle > fight (a battle, etc.) [verb (transitive)] > be a match for in battle
to hold, rarely have, tack with (to)1412
to hold (a person, etc.) tack (to tack)1555
1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. vi. 150 Thei [Parthians] helde the Romaines suche tacke, that in sondrie warres they gaue them great ouerthrowes.
1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe iii. i. sig. D4v I am sure our Ladies hold our Lords tack for Courtshippe, and yet the french Lords put them downe.
1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion xi. 172 Faire Chester, call'd of old Carelegion,..the faithfull station then, So stoutly held to tack by those neere North-wales men.
1615 E. Hoby Curry-combe i. 3 As if I haue not a good dish of Oysters, and a cold pye at home to hold you tacke.
1706 S. Centlivre Basset-table ii. i. 23 Ay, give me the Woman that can hold me tack in my own Dialect.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) at Hold Phr. ‘to hold one tack’, to keep him close to the point.
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the mind > will > decision > constancy or steadfastness > be constant or steadfast [verb (intransitive)] > endure without giving way
bearOE
sustaina1382
dreec1400
to bear, hold tack1580
to stick out1677
to tough it (out)1830
to keep (carry, have) a stiff upper lip1837
to take it (or life) on the chin1928
to hang in1969
1580 T. Tusser Fiue Hundred Pointes Good Husbandrie (new ed.) f. 12v And Martilmas beefe, doth beare good tack, when countrie folke, doe dainties lack.
1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 164 It serueth to hold tacke, till by inuasion or otherwise the Iesuits may worke their feate.
1663 S. Butler Hudibras: First Pt. i. iii. 184 If this Twig be made of wood That will hold tack.
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 19 With good Milk pottage I held tack.
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1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ester à vne chose convenuë, to keepe touch; hold tacke, stand to a bargaine.
1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 305 The correspondence he had in that place not keeping tack at the time prefixt.
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the world > relative properties > relationship > equality or equivalence > condition of being mean or average > average [verb (transitive)] > be midway between
to be half tack with1567
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 60 Reede is halfe tack with the Herbe and tree, but in force or growth, aboue the Herbe. And nothing in strength to the tree his comparison.
Compounds
General attributive. C1.
a. (In sense 2.)
tack-claw n.
tack-extractor n.
tack-lifter n.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > other specific types of equipment > [noun] > extracting tools
screw1697
extractor1753
tack-lifter1858
tickler1875
bleeder1893
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Tack-lifter, a tool for taking up tacks from carpets on a floor.
b. † tack-nail n. Obsolete a tack, tacket, or hob-nail.
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tack-comb n. a row of tacks cast in the form of a hair-comb for use in a shoe-making machine.
tack-driver n. a machine which automatically places and drives a series of tacks; also = tack-hammer n.
tack-hammer n. a light hammer for driving tacks; also as v. transitive.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > work with tools or equipment [verb (transitive)] > driving or beating tools
strike1340
hammerc1430
maul?1440
riveta1450
calla1522
peena1522
peck1533
mallet1594
beetle1608
pickaxe1800
sledge1816
sledgehammer1834
tack-hammer1865
pin1875
pile-drive1894
staple gun1960
society > occupation and work > equipment > driving or beating tools > [noun] > hammer > other hammers
hand-hammereOE
maulc1225
plating hammer1543
bucker1653
axe-hammer1681
brick hammer1688
chipping hammer1783
tup1848
clinch-hammer1850
tack-hammer1865
bucking hammer1875
bloat1881
ringer1883
key hammer1884
peen hammer1885
straight pein1904
toffee hammer1958
1865 Atlantic Monthly June 736/2 If she absolutely cannot get a tack-hammer with a claw on one end, she can take up carpet-nails with an iron spoon.
1889 Talmage in Voice (N.Y.) 28 Feb. Much [church work] amounts to..a tack-hammer smiting the Gibraltar.
1890 ‘R. Boldrewood’ Miner's Right I. i. 21 Which made the heavy tool tremble in my grasp like a tack hammer.
1908 R. Kipling Bk. of Words (1928) 36 The meanest collection of packing-cases that was ever tack-hammered together.
tack-mill n. a factory for making tacks.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > others
coal pitOE
wireworks1598
alum works1617
copperas-worka1661
saltpetre house1683
nailery1802
railworks1863
lockworks1864
sulphur-work1870
tack-mill1884
pitch-boilery1885
rubber plant1886
soot house1957
1884 H. D. Lloyd in N. Amer. Rev. June 546 The tack-mills in the combination run about three days in the week.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > nail
naileOE
preenc1225
tacket1316
tack-nail1463
1463 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (modernized text) III. 556/3, 1 c. taknail 4d.
1519 W. Horman Vulgaria xxviii. f. 237 Set some tacke naylis, or racke naylis arowe.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Broca A shooemakers tacke naile.
tack-puller n. a tool for extracting tacks or small nails from a carpet, etc.
tack-rivet n. a small metal rivet.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > rivet > types of
butt riveting1860
tack-rivet1874
pop rivet1932
1874 S. J. P. Thearle Naval Archit. (new ed.) I. 71 The side plates, or bars, are connected to the vertical plate by..small rivets, termed ‘tack rivets’.
tack work n. see quot.
ΚΠ
1879 C. Hibbs in Cassell's Techn. Educator IV. 299/2 ‘Tack work’, which means brass-headed nails, hooks, sash and drawer knobs, and little things of that sort.
C2.
a. (In sense 5.)
tack-block n.
tack-earing n.
tack-end n.
ΚΠ
1774 J. Cook Jrnl. 1 July (1969) II. 447 When they want to change Tacks [they] have only to ease of the sheet and bring the heel or Tack end of the yard to the other end of the Boat and the sheet in like manner.
1867 J. Macgregor Rob Roy on Baltic App. 296 The tack end of the boom is made fast to the mast by a flat piece of leather.
tack-lashing n.
tack-piece n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1711 W. Sutherland Ship-builders Assistant 164 Tack-piece, that to which the Fore-sail is tack'd down.
tack-tackle n.
ΚΠ
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine at Tackle Tack-tackle, a small tackle used occasionally to pull down the tack of the principal sails of a ship to their respective stations.
1882 G. S. Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 82 Tack tackle..a tackle from the tack of the spanker to the deck.
b.
tack-pins n. belaying pins of the fife-rail (Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867).
C3. (In sense 4.)
tack weld v. (transitive) to join (materials) at intervals with provisional welds in order to hold them in position for subsequent work; hence as n.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > weld > with specific technique
seam1703
jump1864
tack1887
spot weld1908
seam-weld1917
tack weld1919
lead-burn1937
projection-weld1950
micro-weld1965
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > [noun] > welding > joint made by > types of
rust joint1839
butt weld1850
jump-weld1864
jump-joint1874
tee-joint1888
spot weld1908
tack weld1919
seam weld1920
fillet weld1929
fusion weld1930
braze1934
projection weld1938
flash weld1959
1919 Chambers's Jrnl. Jan. 60/2 Up the sides the seams were only welded at intervals, or ‘tack welded’, as it is called.
1950 B. R. Hilton Welding Design ii. 42 If tack welds are not to be removed as the welding proceeds, their section should be equivalent to that of the first weld run.
1964 S. Crawford Basic Engin. Processes iii. 82 A tack weld is made by applying the flame to the metal until it melts and then adding a little welding rod.
1979 Financial Times 22 Jan. 9/7 The top is tack welded, then the bottom, followed by the sides. Clamps and devices are removed and the weld completed.
C4. (In sense 10.)
tack coat n. (see quot. 1954).
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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > mineral material > mineral and fossil resins > [noun] > bitumen or pitch > coat of
tack coat1949
1949 Sun (Baltimore) 17 Oct. 26/3 Workmen spread a ‘tack coat’ of asphalt on the old pavement.
1954 Gloss. Highway Engin. Terms (B.S.I.) 28 Tack coat, a coat of liquid (such as bitumen, road tar, or an emulsion thereof) applied as a thin film to a surface to improve the adhesion of a course laid thereon.
1979 Civil Engin. Nov. 27/1 The painting on of a grid of levels on the tack coat by engineers.
tack rag n. U.S. an impregnated cloth used for cleaning a surface prior to painting or varnishing.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > cleaning other miscellaneous things > [noun] > cleaning paintwork > cloth for
tack rag1958
1958 Washington Post 16 Aug. b 3/6 So-called ‘tack’ rags are used in factories where dust particles are likely to mar freshly painted surfaces.
1979 P. Wallage Restoration Post-War Cars ii. 25/2 Go over it with a tack rag.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
tackn.2
/tak/, U.S. /tæk/, Scottish English /tak/ Chiefly Scottish and English regional (northern).
I. Senses relating to feudal payment or tenure, and similar uses.† 1. A customary payment levied by a ruler, feudal superior, or corporation. Obsolete.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > payment or service to feudal superior > [noun]
gavelc725
tacka1300
servicec1300
customc1390
servagec1400
taskc1400
homage1440
under-aid1579
reddendoa1630
workdaya1634
render1647
darg-days-
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > tax > [noun]
tacka1300
taxa1327
tail1340
stent138.
emption1467
duty1474
stint1485
teamc1485
liverage1544
stipend1545
toust1574
sess1579
cut1634
censure1641
gild1656
leviation1681
levation1690
a1300 Cursor Mundi 28438 Toll and tak, and rent o syse, Withalden i haue wit couettise.
1564 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 295 To mak and deliver to the saidis Margaret and Alexander infeftmentis of the saidis landis..likwyise..in all pointis without takkis.
a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 322 He dressit the said bischope..for certaine teindis and tax that the bischope gaif him.
2.
a. Tenure or tenancy, of land, benefice, etc.: esp. leasehold tenure, e.g. of a farm, mill, or the like; the period of tenure. Scottish and English regional (northern). (Cf. Old Norse taka tenure (of land).)
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > leasehold tenure
tack1423
farmage?1529
tenancy1590
leasehold1720
lesseeship1812
tenantry1846
tenantship1883
1423 in J. D. Marwick Charters Edinb. (1871) 55 To have thair corne grundin at the saide millis..durand the saide tak.
1424 Coldstream Chartul. (1879) 43 Ye said priores and ye conuent sal enter in ye tak of ye said land at Qwitsonday.
1449 Sc. Acts Jas. II (1814) II. 35 Suppos the lordis sel or analy þai landis þt þe takaris sall remayne with þare takis, on to þe ische of þare termes.
1526 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1857) I. 15 I will that Dorothe my wyff shall have all such takks leysses and graunts as I now have by the graunts of the Abbot of Qhalley.
1571 E. Plowden Comentaries f. 169v Cesty qe prist lease pur ans dun ferme en le Northe paiz, appelle ceo Tacke.
1671 in Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot. (1892) XXVI. 194 We..Stewart Principall Justiciare and Admirall of Orknay and Zetland, having power be vertue of my tack therof to nominat and appoynt bailyies [etc.].
1701 W. Paterson Proposals Council of Trade 28 That the present Farm or Tack of the Customs be broken, and that the said Impositions of Forreign Excise and entry-Money may never herafter be leased out, or let to Farm.
1885 J. G. Bertram in Brit. Alm. Comp. 77 The ‘tack’ [of a deer forest] may be for a period of years, or it may be for ‘the season’.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire ‘It's the best tack as ever I seid’,..i.e. the farm in question was taken on the best conditions.
b. Sometimes more or less concretely: A leasehold tenement, a farm. Scottish.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > leasehold land or tenement
tenantry1385
take1392
rent1422
tenantryc1450
tack?a1500
tenancy1579
tenanty1612
rentage1892
a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Wolf & Lamb l. 2741 in Poems (1981) 101 How durst thow tak on hand..To put him fra his tak and gar him thig?
1508 W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 212 Thou has a tome purs, I haue stedis and takkis.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 147 Sum takis vthir mens takkis.
1515 in Fam. Rose Kilravock (Spalding Club) 185 Aucht oxin to pleyns ane tak.
c. figurative. A period, a spell (of some condition). Scottish. Cf. ‘lease’ of life, etc.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > period of certain character, condition, or events
dayOE
dayOE
summer day1563
tempestivity1569
set1633
stretch1689
period1712
run1714
tack1723
spell1827
dreamtime1844
time coursea1867
patch1897
dreaming1932
quality time1972
1723 A. Ramsay Nuptials 189 Thou'lt grant them a lang tack of bliss.
1821 J. Galt Ann. Parish xii. 125 There came on a sudden frost, after a tack of wet weather.
1887 J. Service Life Dr. Duguid xxi. 138 We had a lang tack of very wat weather.
3. transferred. An agreement or compact. Scottish.Cf. tack n.1 11d.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement
forewardOE
accordc1275
covenant1297
end1297
form1297
frettec1330
conjurationc1374
treatc1380
bargainc1386
contractc1386
comenaunt1389
compositionc1405
treaty1427
pact1429
paction1440
reconventionc1449
treatisea1464
hostage1470
packa1475
trystc1480
bond (also band) of manrent1482
covenance1484
concordance1490
patisement1529
capitulation1535
conventmenta1547
convenience1551
compact1555
negotiation1563
sacrament1563
match1569
consortship1592
after-agreementa1600
combourgeoisie1602
convention1603
comburghership1606
transaction1611
end-makingc1613
obligement1627
bare contract1641
stipulation1649
accompackmentc1650
rue-bargaina1657
concordat1683
minute1720
tacka1758
understanding1803
meet1804
it's a go1821
deal1863
whizz1869
stand-in1870
gentlemen's agreement1880
meeting of minds1883
a1758 A. Ramsay Clout Caldron iv I've a tinkler under tack, That's us'd to clout my caldron.
1786 R. Burns Poems 31 In gath'rin votes you were na slack, Now stand as tightly by your tack.
4. Pasture for cattle let on hire. dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > grassland > [noun] > pasture > cattle pasture
ox pasturea1300
fugationa1483
cow-pasture1523
ox-grass1568
cow-gang1583
cow-gate1597
dairy-groundsa1618
cattle-range1640
outlet1667
cow-down1724
tack1804
cattle-gate1808
cow's grass1824
cattle station1851
cattle-run1853
cow-lease1854
cattle ranch1857
cattle-post1865
home range1871
cow-run1887
1804 J. Duncumb Coll. Hist. County Hereford I. 214 A tack, grass or clover for horses and cattle, hired by the week, month, or quarter.
1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/2 Tack, hired pasturage.
1873 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. Apr. (E.D.D.) Horses or horned cattle will be taken into Westwood Park to tack or ley.
1877 Birmingham Weekly Post 22 Dec. 1/1 It is..a common expression where a farmer turns his cattle out on the lands of another to say they are out at ‘tack’.
1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) ‘Yo'n got a power o' stock fur yore farm’...‘ Aye, I mus' get some out on tack’.
II. A haul of fish.
5. A take of fish; a catch, draught, haul: = take n.1 3. Also figurative. Scottish and English regional (northern).
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fish to be caught or as catch > [noun] > catch of fish
draughta1387
waithing1488
hale1572
tack1596
take1626
catch1792
haul1854
taking1855
fare1884
strike1887
voyage1897
shack1904
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 40 Gif in ony place quhair a tak of herring is..ony scheding of manis blude aryse..thay ar said to abhor frome that place.
1597 J. Skene De Verborum Significatione at Assisa An thousand herring of ilk tack that halds.
1678 W. Adams Dedham Pulpit 68 Whence a great tack of souls to Christ hath followed.
1772 Hartford Mercury 18 Sept. There is at present the finest tack of herrings ever known, which are now selling on the shore at sixteen-pence the hundred.
1888 G. Van Hare Fifty Years Showman's Life 2 When they draw their net it's called a tack; if there are plenty of fish in the net they call it a good tack, or if there are very few fish they call it a bad tack.
Compounds
General attributive.† tack-swine n. Obsolete hogs paid in rent.
tack-duty n. the rent reserved on a lease; the rent paid by a tacksman or farmer of the customs.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of collecting taxes
tack-duty1680
society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > other rents
tunc1311
Martin rentc1325
land-male1390
fee-farm1399
chief-rent1523
chief1601
guild-rent1670
quit-rent1796
tack-duty1809
fore-rent1813
sub-rent1820
retainer1970
1680 St. Andrew's Town Council Minute-bk. 23 Dec. 86 Impouring him quarterlie to receave from the taxsmen of Costomes the tak deutie payable for the saidis Costomes.
a1722 J. Lauder Decisions (1759) I. 8 Had he not paid the tack-duty for tiends and all.
1809 T. E. Tomlins Jacob's Law-dict. Tack-Duty, the rent reserved on a lease.
1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. xiv. 457 In 1680 the council of St. Andrews allocated the tack duties of the customs of the city towards paying the schoolmaster's stipend.
tack-money n. payment for pannage or pasture.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for privilege > [noun] > of pasturing swine
thistle-tack1303
pannage1392
tack-money1688
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 75/1 An Agistor, is an Officer of the Forest, that takes in to Feed the Cattel of Strangers, and receives for the Kings use all such Tack-Money as becomes due from those Strangers.
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > paid in produce or livestock > specific
rynmart1433
rynmutton1459
capon1495
mart1520
tack-swine1523
reek hen1540
farm meal1547
reek-poultry1585
reek fowl1592
corn-rate1665
wheat-rent?c1682
nowt-geld1688
farm-dish1713
corn-rent1809
pepper-rent1866
the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > male > castrated or hog > paid in rent
tack-swine1523
1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng viii. f. 8 Where as the tenauntes pay tacke swyne by custome,..or a halfpeny for euery swyne, as the custome is vsed.
tack-work n. (see quot.).
ΚΠ
1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Tack-work, work done by contract.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tackn.3
Obsolete or dialect.† 1. A spot, a stain; a blemish; = tache n.1 1, 2.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [noun] > stain of, defilement
wem?c1225
tachec1330
tackc1425
imposthume1565
deformityc1571
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [noun] > a moral blemish or stain
smitOE
wem?c1225
tachec1330
spot1340
wrinklea1400
tackc1425
iron mould1584
iron mole1599
soil1600
taintment1633
smirch1862
the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > stain or spot or blemish
foulnessOE
tachea1400
tackc1425
speckc1785
soilure1840
c1425 Cast. Persev. 2178 in Macro Plays 142 In sory synne had he no tak & ȝyt for synne he bled blody ble.
a1603 T. Cartwright Confut. Rhemists New Test. (1618) 467 The witnesse of the other hath often a wrest and tacke of her corruption.
2. A smack, taste, or flavour (of something); esp. an alien, peculiar, or ill flavour; = tache n.1 2c. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun]
smacka1000
savour?c1225
relesec1330
tastea1382
sentimentc1400
smatchc1400
taragec1407
tangc1440
weffec1440
tallage14..
sapor1477
verdurea1513
verdour1526
relish1530
verder1532
gustc1540
waft1542
smacker1549
talent1550
tack1602
tache1607
tincture1610
twang1611
foretaster1632
flavour1693
gusto1713
goût1751
saporosity1794
gustativeness1827
savouring1840
sipidity1880
palate1973
1602 R. Tyrie 5 Godlie Serm. 146 Superstitious ceremonies, without anie smacke or tacke of anie sound Christian doctrine.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Piquer Le poisson pique, begins to haue a tacke, or ill tast.
1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xix. 4 Or Cheese, which our fat soyle to euery quarter sends; Whose tacke the hungry Clowne, and Plow-man so commends.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. 518 If two articles of food are cooked together, and the stronger flavoured one communicates a taste to the other, it is said to ‘have a tak o' t'ither’.
1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) (at cited word) Ale which has been put into a musty cask is said to have a tack, or a tack of the cask.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† tackn.4
Obsolete. rare.
A billiard-cue: see quot. 16882.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > billiards, pool, or snooker > [noun] > cue
billiard-stick1588
stick1611
tack1688
mace1727
mast1731
cue1749
billiard-mace1785
long butt1846
quarter butt1869
half-butt1896
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 262/1 On each side [the billiard table] standeth a Man with a Tack in his hand, to push the Ball into an Hassard, or Hole.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) xvi. 69/1 In the base of this quarter, is the figure of the Tack or a Stick used at the Billiard table for the strikeing of an Ivory ball.
1826 J. O'Keefe Recollections I. vii. 268 The young nobleman..when he was the striker, took the nicest pains to place his tack in such a manner, that to hold his adversary's ball seemed a matter of course.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
tackn.5
Foodstuff; chiefly in hardtack n., ship's biscuit, soft tack n. at soft adj. Compounds 2a; also gen. stuff, often in depreciatory sense. Cf. tackle n. 8.
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the world > food and drink > food > [noun]
meateOE
eatOE
foodOE
fodderOE
dietc1230
gista1290
victual1303
victualsa1375
preya1382
feedinga1398
pasturea1398
viancea1400
viandsc1400
livingc1405
meatingc1425
vitalyc1440
vianda1450
cates1461
vivers1536
viandry1542
viander1543
gut-matter1549
peck1567
belly-cheer1579
appast1580
manchet1583
chat1584
belly-metal1590
repasture1598
cibaries1599
belly-timber1607
belly-cheat1608
peckage1610
victuallage1622
keeping1644
vivresa1650
crib1652
prog1655
grub1659
beef1661
fooding1663
teething1673
eatablea1687
sunket1686
yam1788
chow-chow1795
keep1801
feed1818
grubbing1819
patter1824
ninyam1826
nyam1828
grubbery1831
tack1834
kai1845
mungaree1846
scoff1846
foodstuff1847
chuck1850
muckamuck1852
tuck1857
tucker1858
hash1865
nosh1873
jock1879
cake flour1881
chow1886
nosebag1888
stodge1890
food aid1900
tackle1900
munga1907
scarf1932
grubber1959
1834 F. Marryat Peter Simple II. ix. 138 The..steward..came back with a basket of soft tack, i.e. loaves of bread.
1841 C. J. Lever Charles O'Malley lxxxviii No more hard tack thought I, no salt butter.
1864 Daily Tel. 5 Nov. Horses stopped to graze, and the men..began quietly munching a hard tack.
1889 D. C. Murray & H. Murray Dangerous Catspaw 129 He knows Lord Byron from beginning to end, but his head's that full of that kind of tack there's no room for anything else.
1894 D. C. Murray Making of Novelist 42 I thought the canteen tack the nastiest stuff I had ever tasted.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
tackn.6
rare.
The sound of a smart stroke.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > sound of blow or fall > [noun]
smitea1200
smita1425
yark1555
riprapc1580
brattlea1600
verberation1609
whack1737
whang1770
swash1789
plunk1809
tack1821
pong1823
snop1849
thunge1849
knap1870
thung1890
pow1931
thunk1952
bonk1957
1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. x. 254 Now, hush and listen,..you will soon hear the tack of a hammer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
tackn.7
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > [noun]
tacklea1325
enginea1393
geara1400
workhorse1463
graith1513
trinketc1525
implementsa1552
furniture1577
store1605
tew1616
thing1662
stock-in-trade1775
tack1777
apparatus1796
work thing1812
gearinga1854
matériel1856
plant1867
hardware1947
workhorse1949
the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > that which is supplied > that with which anything is equipped > equipment or accoutrements
ornament?c1225
i-wendea1250
atil1297
tacklea1325
apparel1330
conreyc1330
farec1330
tirec1330
apparementc1340
apparelmentc1374
graithc1375
appurtenancec1386
geara1400
warnementa1400
stuff1406
parelling?a1440
farrements1440
stuffurec1440
skippeson1444
harnessa1450
parela1450
implements1454
reparel1466
ordinance1475
habiliments1483
ornation1483
muniments1485
mountures1489
outred1489
accomplement?c1525
trinketc1525
garnishing1530
garniture1532
accoutrementsc1550
furniments1553
tackling1558
instrument1563
ordinara1578
appointment?1578
outreiking1584
appoint1592
dighting1598
outreik1598
apparate?c1600
accomplishment1605
attirail1611
coutrement1621
apparatusa1628
equipage1648
thing1662
equipment1717
paraphernalia1736
tack1777
outfit1787
fittinga1817
fixing1820
set-out1831
rigging1837
fixture1854
parapherna1876
clobber1890
the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > (a) means > equipment for any action or undertaking
ornament?c1225
i-wendea1250
atil1297
tacklea1325
apparel1330
conreyc1330
farec1330
tirec1330
apparementc1340
apparelmentc1374
graithc1375
appurtenancec1386
geara1400
warnementa1400
stuff1406
parelling?a1440
farrements1440
stuffurec1440
skippeson1444
harnessa1450
parela1450
implements1454
reparel1466
ordinance1475
habiliments1483
ornation1483
muniments1485
outred1489
trinketc1525
garnishing1530
garniture1532
accoutrementsc1550
furniments1553
tackling1558
instrument1563
ordinara1578
appointment?1578
outreiking1584
supellectile1584
appoint1592
dighting1598
outreik1598
materialsa1600
apparate?c1600
attirail1611
coutrement1621
apparatusa1628
outrig1639
equipage1648
thing1662
equipment1717
paraphernalia1736
fixture1767
tack1777
outfit1787
fittinga1817
fixing1820
matériel1821
set-out1831
rigging1837
parapherna1876
clobber1890
1777 in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1905) VI. 3/2.
1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) My tacks bin at Newport, or I'd soon ketch them rots.
1893 J. Salisbury Gloss. Words S.E. Worcs. Tack,..a collection of tools; a razor-grinder's machine is his tack; a smith's box of tools for shoeing horses is his ‘shoeing tack’.
b. = tackle n. 6. Also in combinations, as tack room.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun]
harness1303
geara1400
graithc1650
tackling1650
horse-gear1653
garniture1670
tackle1684
van harness1823
tack1924
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > tack room
saddle room1749
saddle house1799
saddlery1820
tack room1924
tackle-room1951
1924 I. Maddison Riding Astride for Girls xiv. 226 I will now give a few hints on tack..in the show ring. The tack on a saddle-horse should be as light as possible.
1933 A. Blewitt Ponies & Children iii. 34 Any prize rosettes they win are stuck up on their tack-room wall.
1940 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 15 Apr. 21/4 Tack is the name for a rider's equipment—saddle, whip, boots, etc., apparently derived from tackle.
1950 J. Cannan Murder Included iv. 65 Patricia..was cleaning tack in the stable.
1964 D. Francis Nerve xi. 147 It was a tack-room. Every stable has one..the place where the saddles and bridles are kept.
1975 F. Kennedy Alberta was my Beat ix. 111 He stood there like a broke saddle horse as we put the tack on him.
1979 J. Johnston Old Jest 100 There was a boy who kept the tack, polished the lovely shiny boots. There was a smell of saddle soap and horse dung. The saddles are flaking now, out in the damp tack room.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
tackn.8
U.S. colloquial.
= tachograph n., tachometer n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > [noun] > in the physical sciences > measurement of > instrument
tachometer1810
velocimeter1842
velocity-measurer1850
tack1963
tacho1964
tach1966
1963 Amer. Speech 38 46 Tack,..the device in the cab which automatically records miles driven, number of stops, speed, and so on, during a trip; short for tachometer.
1971 M. Tak Truck Talk 162 Tack, short for tachometer or tachograph.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
tackn.9
/tak/, U.S. /tæk/ colloquial.
That which is ‘tacky’ or cheap and shabby; shoddy or gaudy material; rubbish, junk.
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the mind > attention and judgement > bad taste > [noun] > tasteless material
tack1986
1986 Video Today Apr. 33/4 Any interest in this sordid tack lies in the role it plays in Cohen's regression since the days of The Terminator.
1988 Arena Autumn–Winter 198/1 The king of cinematic trash and tack turns his attentions to the written word.
1990 Sounds 3 Feb. 20/2 Queen B are pretty much an exercise in traditional tack, a celebration of all things glittery.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tackv.1
I. To attach.† 1. † c. To join in wedlock. Obsolete slang.† 2. To connect or join by an intervening part.
a. transitive. To attach, fasten (one thing to another, or things together). Obsolete except as in 3.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > attachment > attach or affix [verb (transitive)]
fastenOE
fasta1225
tachec1315
to-seta1340
catcha1350
affichea1382
to put ona1382
tacka1387
to put to1396
adjoina1400
attach?a1400
bend1399
spyndec1400
to-tachc1400
affixc1448
complexc1470
setc1480
attouch1483
found?1541
obligate1547
patch1549
alligate1563
dight1572
inyoke1595
infixa1616
wreathe1643
adlige1650
adhibit1651
oblige1656
adent1658
to bring to1681
engage1766
superfix1766
to lap on1867
accrete1870
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1871) III. 173 He..made hem sprede and takkede þe skyn aboute þe chayer [L. sellæ judiciariæ circumponi] þere þe iuge schulde sitte in plee forto deme.
c1400 Brut 103 Kyng Alurede hade þat boke in his warde, and..lete hit faste bene tackede to a piler, þat men myȝt hit nouȝt remeve.
1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 8 §16 Without tacking or sowing of any Bulrushes..upon the Lists of the same.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 746/1 Tacke it faste with a nayle.
1616 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Scornful Ladie ii. sig. E1v Peace, or Ile tacke your tongue vp to your roofe.
1697 S. Patrick Comm. Exod. (xxvi. 3) 506 The Loops were..tackt to the Selvage of the outermost of them.
1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 26. 172 He dried and tacked together the Skins of Goats.
1843 G. W. Le Fevre Life Trav. Physician II. i. xviii. 153 We often tacked on twelve horses to a small vehicle.
b. transferred and figurative. To attach.
ΚΠ
a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) xliii. f. 83v Al the vnderstandynges are tacked to one free wyll.
1653 tr. S. Przypkowski Dissertatio de Pace ix. 46 The Fathers did with ingenious comments tack the mysteries of their Philosophy to the word of God.
1709 M. Prior Poems Several Occasions 77 With Eke's and Also's tack thy strain, Great Bard.
1791 W. Gilpin Remarks Forest Scenery II. 187 He who works without taste..tacks one part to another, as his misguided fancy suggests.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > action or fact of marrying > marry [verb (transitive)] > join in marriage
wedOE
join1297
spousec1325
bind1330
couplea1340
to put togethera1387
conjoin1447
accouple1548
matea1593
solemnize1592
espouse1599
faggot1607
noose1664
to give (also conjoin, join, take) in (also to, into) marriage1700
rivet1700
to tie the knot1718
buckle1724
unite1728
tack1732
wedlock1737
marry1749
splice1751
to turn off1759
to tie up1894
1732 H. Fielding Old Debauchees iii. xiv. 40 We will employ this honest Gentleman here, to tack our Son and Daughter together.
1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) iii. 65 I' faith, he must tack me first, my love is waiting.
1821 Sporting Mag. 8 105 A Curate..Had brought to the altar a pair to be tack'd.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > join (together) [verb (transitive)] > join by intervening or intermediate part
tack1639
intermediate1880
1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre ii. xii. 60 It [sc. Tyre]..was tacked to the continent with a small neck of land.
a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 446 The numberlesse Ilands tack'd together by no fewer than 450 bridges.
1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting I. v. 109 They have..tacked the wings to a house by a colonade.
3.
a. To attach in a slight or temporary manner; esp. to attach with tacks (short nails or slight stitches), which can be easily taken out.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with tools or equipment > fastening > fasten [verb (transitive)] > with nails > in specific manner
tackc1440
drive1565
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 485/2 Takkyn', or some what sowyn' to-gedur,..consutulo.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. x. 175 If agitation..jog that out of thy head, which was there rather tack'd then fastned.
1678 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. iii. 51 Drive in a small Tack on each side..or you may Tack down two small thin boards on either side.
1696 J. F. Merchant's Ware-house 8 The Hamborough is rowled up very hard, and either tacked with Thred, or tyed about with Tape.
1830 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 May 564 The wretched boards tacked together, to serve for a table.
1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiii. 295 I copy the play-bill from the original..tacked against the main-mast.
1894 Times 3 Mar. 11/3 He had ‘tacked’ the cloth down to the stage.
1896 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. I. 434 They [jackets] are lined with a layer of cotton-wool neatly tacked in.
1910 N.E.D. at Tack Mod. The sleeves are tacked in to try how they fit.
b. spec.† (a) Horticulture. To fasten with tacks (tack n.1 3a). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > management of plants > [verb (transitive)] > other processes
unplant1552
ingentle1622
blanch1669
tack1693
colonize1816
1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie Compl. Gard'ner ii. iv. xxix. 41 In Tacking for the first time after the Pruning.
(b) Metal-working. To keep (a metal plate, etc.) in place by small lumps of solder until the soldering is completed.
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > weld > with specific technique
seam1703
jump1864
tack1887
spot weld1908
seam-weld1917
tack weld1919
lead-burn1937
projection-weld1950
micro-weld1965
1887 in Cassell's Encycl. Dict. VI.
(c) Plumbing. To secure (a pipe) with tacks (tack n.1 3b).
ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > industry > conducting of water, etc., by channels or pipes > plumbing and pipework > [verb (transitive)] > join or secure pipes
stave1850
welt1888
tack1895
tee1908
1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.
4. To join together (events, accounts, etc.) so as to produce or show a connected whole; to bring into connection. (Often implying arbitrary or artificial union.)
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > relationship > relate to [verb (transitive)] > relate or connect one thing to another
tiec1000
link?a1412
mate1594
tack1683
relate1697
bridge1834
connect1881
to tie up1888
the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fact or action of being joined or joining > fact or action of being connected or connecting > connect [verb (transitive)] > specifically in thought, speech, or writing
couplec1230
colligate1613
connect1678
tack1683
brace1826
1683 J. Dryden Vindication 15 Mr. Hunt has found a rare connexion, for he tacks them together, by the kicking of the Sheriffs.
1695 J. Edwards Disc. conc. Old & New-Test. III. x. 434 Many Expositors labour to tack this Text to the immediately foregoing one.
1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 166 The Gentleman..tacks these two accounts together.
1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville Theory & Pract. Gardening 128 The foregoing Practices..being but Things detached and separate,..there is still a farther Difficulty to tack them together, so as to make one Piece.
1720 D. Waterland 8 Serm. Divinity of Christ 221 One might suspect that there had been two Versions of the same words, and Both, by degrees, taken into the Text, and tack'd together.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. App. b. 356 Traditionary tales, tacked together without regard to place or chronology.
5. To attach or add as a supplement; to adjoin, append, annex; spec. in parliamentary usage: see quots. and cf. tack n.1 8. Also const. on.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legislation > make (laws) or establish as law [verb (transitive)] > attach a measure
tack1683
1683 T. Robinson in J. Ray Corr. (1848) 137 Thus far your queries as to France, to which I will tack an observation to fill up.
1692 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 365 A committee of the lords sat..to search presidents about tacking one bill to another.
1700 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 401 The greate Contest betweene the Lords & Commons concerning the Lords power of..rejection of certaine bills, tack't to the money bill.
1757–8 T. Smollett Hist. Eng. (1759) IX. 296 The lords had already resolved by a vote, That they would never pass any bill sent up from the commons, to which a clause foreign to the bill should be tacked.
1791 ‘G. Gambado’ Ann. Horsemanship ix. 42 As it's a fact, you may tack my name to it.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xxii. 771 A strong party in the Commons..proposed to tack the bill which the Peers had just rejected to the Land Tax Bill.
1863 H. Cox Inst. Eng. Govt. i. viii. 114 The return is made by indenture..is signed and sealed, and returned to the Crown office in Chancery, tacked to the writ itself.
1902 L. Stephen Stud. of Biographer IV. v. 179 So prosperous a consummation was never tacked to so dismal a beginning.
1908 L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables viii. 83 Marilla was as fond of morals as the Duchess in Wonderland, and was firmly convinced that one should be tacked on to every remark made to a child.
1909 A. Grant in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 540 The argument that the Finance Bill of this year is an instance of ‘tacking’, that is, of the inclusion in a Money Bill of clauses not dealing with Finance.
1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day i. 17 My father's family name was originally Day, the Lewis being tacked on by a man who adopted his grandfather or great-grandfather.
6. Law. To unite (a third or subsequent incumbrance) to the first, whereby it acquires priority over an intermediate mortgage.
ΘΚΠ
society > law > legal obligation > bond or recognizance > requiring or giving legal security > legal security [verb (transitive)] > mortgage > unite a third encumbrance to first
tack1728
1728 Sir J. Jekyll in Peere Williams Reports (1793) II. 491 If a judgment creditor..buys in the first mortgage..he shall not tack or unite this to his judgment and thereby gain a preference.
1818 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. (ed. 2) II. 225.
1841 Penny Cycl. XIX. 361/2 Now if..D pays off B, and takes an assignment of his mortgage and of the outstanding term; if, to use the technical phrase, he ‘tacks’ B's security to his own, he unites in himself equal equity with C, and also the legal right which the term gives him.
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 849/1 In addition to the risk of a third mortgagee tacking.
II. Nautical senses. (From tack n.1 5)
7.
a. intransitive. To shift the tacks and brace the yards, and turn the ship's head to the wind, so that she shall sail at the same angle to the wind on the other side; to go about in this way; also tack about. Hence, to make a run or course obliquely against the wind; to proceed by a series of such courses; to beat to windward: often said of the ship itself.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > avail oneself of a wind [verb (intransitive)] > tack or make tacks
to make boards1533
tack1557
traverse1568
ply1589
board1627
tackle1632
busk1635
trip1687
to beat abouta1774
to come about1777
to make short boards1777
1557 in A. Jenkinson Voy. & Trav. (1886) I. 8 The rest of the shippes shall tacke or take of their sailes in such sort as they may meete and come together, in as good order as may be.
c1579 A. Montgomerie Misc. Poems xlviii. 140 Tak on ȝour babert luif abuird.
1595 Drake's Voy. (1849) 22 They had the winde of us, but we soone regained it upon them, which made them tacke about.
1683 I. Walton Chalkhill's Thealma & Clearchus 19 His Ketch Tackt to and fro, the scanty wind to snatch.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. iv. 163 Which obliged us to tack and stand to the N.W.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 217 These..could veer and tack with great celerity.
1834 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) III. Navigation ii. v. §55. 26 When the wind blows from any point within six points of the bearing of a port for which a vessel is bound, she must tack or ply to windward.
1873 Daily News 21 Aug. 5/2 The little craft was caught by a sudden squall when tacking, or, as sailors say, ‘in stays,’ taken aback, and capsized in a moment.
1886 E. L. Bynner Agnes Surriage i. 16 Two or three..ketches were tacking up before the brisk off-shore breeze to make the anchorage.
b. Said of the wind: To change its direction.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow from a particular quarter > change direction
wendc1275
turnc1300
waw1496
shift1661
whiffle1697
tack1727
haul1769
to come around1797
1727 P. Longueville Hermit 44 I was hurry'd on board, the Wind being tack'd about, and fair for our Departure.
1910 N.E.D. at Tack Mod. A sailor said The wind was tacking all over the place.
8. intransitive.
a. transferred. To make a turning or zigzag movement on land.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > direct one's course [verb (intransitive)] > make zig-zag course
tack1700
zigzag1787
to work a traverse1805
weave1884
traverse1905
Major-Mitchell1922
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical iii. 34 I Tack'd about, and made a Trip over Moor-fields.
1716 B. Church Entertaining Passages Philip's War i. 29 They..tack'd short about to run as fast back as they came forward.
1787 ‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen 23 [The Massilians] Without a bridle on the bare back, Make with a stick their horse or mare tack.
1858 C. Patmore Espousals iv, in Angel in House (ed. 2) II. 210 But he who tacks and tries short cuts Gets fool's praise and a broken shin.
b. figurative. To change one's attitude, opinion, or conduct; also, to proceed by indirect methods.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > behaviour > behave, conduct, or bear oneself [verb (intransitive)] > change one's behaviour
to sing another song or a different tune1390
vary1481
to change (turn, alter) one's copy1523
to turn down a leaf1633
tack1637
to sing different1897
snap out of it1918
1637 J. Pocklington Altare Christianum 169 He will..tacke about for other considerations..if hee bee well put to it.
1663 S. Pepys Diary 24 June (1971) IV. 195 He hath lately been observed to tack about at Court and to endeavour to strike in with the persons that are against the Chancellor.
1823 I. D'Israeli Curiosities of Lit. 2nd Ser. I. 315 Bacon..when he found the wind in his teeth, tacked round, and promised Buckingham to promote the match he so much abhorred.
1860–70 W. Stubbs Lect. European Hist. (1904) ii. ii. 166 He is not for a moment diverted, although he sometimes consents to tack.
9. transitive. To alter the course of (a ship) by turning her with her head to the wind (sometimes said of the ship); opposed to wear v.2 Also, to work or navigate (a ship) against the wind by a series of tacks. Also figurative.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > get into the current of the wind [verb (transitive)] > cause to go about > by specific method
tack1637
boxc1710
wear1719
wore1744
to box off1745
box-haul1769
club-haul1834
1637 J. Pocklington Altare Christianum 152 No man that has not his understanding tackt and the eye thereof turned after the humour of the men of Gr[antham].
1747 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1851) V. 115 They then tacked the Ship and stood out to Sea.
1805 Naval Chron. 14 16 She tacked Ship.
1860 E. Stamp in Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 279 All hands were turned up to tack ship.
1906 Temple Bar Jan. 72 It is sung sometimes when tacking ship in fair weather.
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tackv.2
dialect.
1. transitive. To take a lease of (a farm, etc.). Scottish. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > trade and finance > buying > hiring or renting > hire [verb (transitive)] > take a lease of
lease1877
tack1882
1882 Jamieson's Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. (new ed.) Tack, to take, to lease.
2.
a. To put out (cattle) to hired pasture.
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the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [verb (transitive)] > agist
gist1483
joist1601
agist1702
tack1839
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > put to hired pasture
gist1483
joist1601
tack1839
the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > pasture > pasture for rent
gist1483
agist1598
joist1601
tack1839
1839 G. C. Lewis Gloss. Words Herefordshire 104 He has tacked out his cattle.
1863 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. (new ed.) II. (Gloss.) 726/2 Tacking out, putting cattle upon hired pasturage.
b. To take (cattle) to pasture for hire.
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1882 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (at cited word) Mary Cadwallader 'as sent half-a-crown for tackin' the donkey, an' wants to know if you'll tack 'im a week or nine days longer.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
tackv.3
/tak/, U.S. /tæk/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
transitive. To taint, infect; ? to tinge, stain; dialect to give a smack or tang to.
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the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > corruption > [verb (transitive)]
forbraidc888
besmiteeOE
awemOE
filec1175
soila1250
envenomc1300
beshrewc1325
shrew1338
corrumpa1340
corrupt1382
subvertc1384
tache1390
poison1395
infect?c1400
intoxicatec1450
deprave1482
corrup1483
rust1493
turkess?1521
vitiate1534
prevary?1541
depravate1548
fester?1548
turkish1560
wry1563
taint1573
disalter1579
prevaricate1595
sophisticate1597
invitiate1598
fashion1600
tack1601
debauch1603
deturpate1623
disaltern1635
ulcer1642
deboise1654
Neronize1673
demoralize1794
bedevil1800
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > production of disease > make diseased [verb (transitive)] > infect
infecta1398
touch?c1400
smit1428
file1456
disease1467
fect?1541
tache?1541
tack1601
smittle1625
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > stain or sully [verb (transitive)]
filea1325
foulc1330
tache1390
dark?c1400
distain1406
smita1413
blemish1414
black?c1425
defoul1470
maculate?a1475
macule1484
tan1530
staina1535
spota1542
smear1549
blot1566
besmear1579
defile1581
attaint1590
soila1596
slubber1599
tack1601
woad1603
besmirch1604
blur1604
to breathe upon ——1608
be-smut1610
clouda1616
sullya1616
taint1623
smutch1640
blackena1649
to cast, put, throw (etc.) a slur on or upon (a person or thing)1654
beslur1675
tarnish1695
blackwash1762
carbonify1792
smirch1820
tattoo1884
dirten1987
society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > corrupt > taint or infect
smiteeOE
besmiteeOE
smitOE
besmita1250
empoisonc1400
fadec1400
infect?c1400
attainta1529
leaven1534
inquinate1542
contaminate1563
taint1573
tack1601
beleper?a1625
the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sourness or acidity > make sour [verb (transitive)]
sharpa1425
sourc1460
intersour1599
unsweeten1611
blink1616
dissweeten1622
besoura1660
sharpen1675
acidulate1684
whig1756
acidify1837
tack1868
tarten1925
acidize1936
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xliv In case any of the sheep were deeply tackt and infected with the rot.
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxiv. 28) 276 All the Corinthians were tackt with..the incestuous mans offence.
1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xxxi. 19) 245 She was somewhat tackt with her fathers superstition.
1868 J. C. Atkinson Gloss. Cleveland Dial. Takt, adj. Having a marked flavour; usually applied in the case of an acid liquid.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
tackv.4
transitive. = attack v.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack (of animal)
to venture on (also uponc1528
bait1570
to go at ——1675
tack1720
to go for ——1838
sick1845
aggress1882
the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > attack with hostile words or measures
fangc1320
hurtlec1374
impugnc1384
weighc1386
to fall upon ——a1398
to start on ——a1398
oppugn?1435
to lay to, untoa1500
onseta1522
wipe1523
to set against ——1542
to fall aboard——1593
aggress1596
to fall foul1602
attack1613
appugn1615
to set upon ——1639
to fall on ——1641
to lay home, hard, hardly to1650
tack1720
bombard1766
savage1796
to pitch into ——1823
to begin upon a personc1825
bulldog1842
to down on (also upon)a1848
to set at ——1849
to start on ——a1851
to start in on1859
set on at or to1862
to let into1872
to go for ——1890
swash1890
slog1891
to get at ——1893
tee1955
1720 H. Carey Poems (new ed.) 56 But if they once Tack you, They certainly Back you.
1731 Peyton's Divine Catastrophe Stuarts (new ed.) 42 As if a Partridge being near to a Faulcon..might peck and tack [1652 tach] her, yet would not she yield to a small Bird.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
tackv.5
transitive. = tackle v. 3. Usually with up. Also intransitive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > tack or harness
harness13..
putc1550
to put in1709
tackle1714
to put to1732
reharness1775
crupper1787
crup1880
tack1946
1946 M. C. Self Horseman's Encycl. 395 To tack up a horse means to put the saddle and bridle on him.
1962 W. Faulkner Reivers viii. 178 So we..tacked up and..led the way.
1972 Islander (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 26 Mar. 13/1 In addition to being taught how to groom a horse, the new student must learn how to tack-up (that's putting a saddle and bridle on).
1977 Sunday Tel. 1 May (Colour Suppl.) 22/3 It is not a bad idea either to acquire a creature that will come when it is called or will at least stand still long enough to get it tacked up for a bit of a ride.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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