tack : Idioms & Phrases

• noun used to nail down carpets
  

WordNet

• (Naut.), a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack.

Webster 1913

Hard"-tack` noun

Definitions

1. A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.

Webster 1913

• leavened bread, as distinguished from hard-tack, or ship bread.

Webster 1913

• noun a light hammer that is used to drive tacks
  

WordNet

• (Naut.), a line spliced into the eye at the foot of the hoist for securing the flag to the halyards.

Webster 1913

• verb fix to; attach
  tack; tag on; append; hang on.
  
  • append a charm to the necklace

WordNet

• (Naut.), belaying pins; also called jack pins.

Webster 1913

• verb create by putting components or members together
  set up; tack; assemble; piece; put together.
  
  • She pieced a quilt
  • He tacked together some verses
  • They set up a committee

WordNet

• noun a loose, looped, sewing stitch used to transfer marking for darts, etc., from a pattern to material
  

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• noun a game in which two players alternately put crosses and circles in one of the compartments of a square grid of nine spaces; the object is to get a row of three crosses or three circles before the opponent does
  noughts and crosses; tic-tac-toe; ticktacktoe; ticktacktoo; tit-tat-toe.
  

WordNet

• noun a pin used to hold the tie in place
  scarfpin; tiepin.
  

WordNet

• to set the courses.
• (Naut.), to set the courses.

Webster 1913

• to last or hold out. Milton.

Webster 1913