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Tackle
TACK'LE, n.
1. A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and blocks, called a pulley.
2. Instruments of action; weapons.
She to her tackle fell.
3. An arrow.
4. The rigging and apparatus of a ship.
Tackle-fall, the rope, or rather the end of the rope of a pulley, which falls and by which it is pulled.
Ground-tackle, anchors, cables, etc.
Gun-tackle, the instruments for hauling cannon in or out.
Tack-tackle, a small tackle to pull down the tacks of the principal sails.
TACK'LE, v.t. To harness; as, to tackle a horse into a gig, sleigh, coach or wagon. [A legitimate and common use of the word in America.]
1. To seize; to lay hold of; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game. This is a common popular use of the word in New England, though not elegant. But it retains the primitive idea, to put on, to fall or throw on. [See Attack.]
2. To supply with tackle.
tackle appears in definitions for these words:
Anchorage Armament Becket Bottomry Burton Caburns Cat Cats-paw Clew-carnets Clew-lines Crane Entackle Eyebolt Fall Foretackle Frap Garnet Gear Guntackle Guy Halliard Harness Hoist Jears Luff Outrigger Pendant Pennon Pulley Reef-tackle Rigging Rounding Rouse Runner Samsons-post Stand Stay-tackle Swifter Swivel-hook Tackle Tackled Top-sail Topping-lift Trinket Underrun Whip Winding-tackle
Anchorage Armament Becket Bottomry Burton Caburns Cat Cats-paw Clew-carnets Clew-lines Crane Entackle Eyebolt Fall Foretackle Frap Garnet Gear Guntackle Guy Halliard Harness Hoist Jears Luff Outrigger Pendant Pennon Pulley Reef-tackle Rigging Rounding Rouse Runner Samsons-post Stand Stay-tackle Swifter Swivel-hook Tackle Tackled Top-sail Topping-lift Trinket Underrun Whip Winding-tackle
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