4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tackling \Tac"kling\, n. (Naut.)
1. Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage,
sails, etc
2. Instruments of action as fishing tackling. --Walton.
3. The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he
draws a carriage, or the like harness.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Tackle \Tac"kle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Tackled}; p. pr & vb n.
{Tackling}.] [Cf. LG takeln to equip. See {Tackle}, n.]
1. To supply with tackle. --Beau. & Fl
2. To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as to
tackle a horse into a coach or wagon. [Colloq.]
3. To seize; to lay hold of to grapple; as a wrestler
tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game.
The greatest poetess of our day has wasted her time
and strength in tackling windmills under conditions
the most fitted to insure her defeat. --Dublin Univ.
Mag.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
tackling
n : taking the bull by the horns [syn: {braving}, {confronting},
{coping with}, {grappling}]
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Tackling
(Isa. 33:23), the ropes attached to the mast of a ship. In Acts
27:19 this word means generally the furniture of the ship or the
gear" (27:17), all that could be removed from the ship.
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