单词 | tacking |
释义 | tackingn. The action of tack v.1 in various senses. a. Joining or fastening together, now esp. in a slight or temporary manner; also, that which is tacked or joined on. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > [noun] anchoring1495 fibulation1658 fastening1691 tacking1713 spanning1874 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. iv. viii. 159 The Muscles, their curious Structure, the nice tacking them to every Joynt. 1880 A. Arnold Free Land 133 As to mortgages, Mr. Joshua Williams described that nefarious dealing..known as ‘tacking’. 1887 G. Saintsbury Hist. Elizabethan Lit. ix. 351 [In Hobbes's Human Nature] the terse phrasing, the independence of all after-thoughts and tackings-on, manifest themselves at once. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward Robert Elsmere II. ii. xiv. 5 You don't know anything about tacking or fixing, or the abominable time they take. b. The attaching to a money-bill in parliament of a measure for some other purpose. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [noun] > attaching measure to a money bill tacking1700 1700 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) V. 401 This Tacking of Bills is a novell practise, suffered by Charles II. who..let any thing passe rather than not have to feede his extravagant favorits. a1745 J. Swift 4 Last Years of Queen (1758) iii. 240 The reasonableness of uniting to a money-bill one of a different nature, which is usually called tacking, hath been likewise much debated, and will admit of argument enough. 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. c. Nautical. The action of making a tack or a series of tacks (tack n.1 6). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > directing or managing a ship > use of wind > [noun] > beating against the wind > tacking boardinga1618 tacking1675 traverse sailing1715 1675 tr. W. Camden Hist. Princess Elizabeth (rev. ed.) iii. 414 Ships fit for Fight, Good Sailers, and nimble and tight for tacking about which way they would. 1806 A. Duncan Life Nelson 86 The damage..prevented him from tacking. 1868 E. Edwards Life Sir W. Ralegh I. vii. 111 [The] great galleons..had to encounter the quick fire and the deft tacking of the smaller..ships of England. d. Lacrosse. (See quot. 1892.) ΚΠ 1892 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. 49 748 ‘Tacking’, as it is called in La Crosse parlance,—otherwise, passing into each other's hands. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as tacking-cotton, tacking-needle, tacking-thread. ΚΠ 1880 L. S. Floyer Plain Hints Examiners Needlework 57 ‘Basting’ or ‘tacking cotton’. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 7 Apr. 3/2 Then run a tacking cotton (no back stitches) all round the four sides... Press the fold of lace till it is nearly dry before you take out the tacking threads. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 8 Oct. 4/1 A sailor's tacking needle. C2. tacking iron n. Photography a tool used for attaching tissue to a print or mount by the application of heat at chosen points. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > photography > photographic processes > processing and printing equipment > [noun] > mounting equipment mountant1886 tacking iron1973 1973 Bodl. Libr. Rec. 9 2 The work bench is equipped with tacking irons and a pH meter. 1977 J. Hedgecoe Photographer's Handbk. 309 (caption) Using an electric tacking iron gently touch the center of the tissue, sticking it to the print. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2019). tackingadj. That tacks; that joins or connects: cf. tacking n. ΘΚΠ society > law > legislation > [adjective] > legislating > attaching measure to bill tacking?1706 ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. iv. 40 If they get..a Tacking-Parliament to make Acts of Uniformity and Conformity to their Models and little Ways. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. v. 54 I never yet in all our Chronicles met with a Parliament stigmatized with the Name of the Tacking Parliament. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1675adj.?1706 |
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