tack : Idioms & Phrases
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carpet tack
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noun used to nail down carpets
WordNet
False tack
(Naut.) , a coming up into the wind and filling away again on the same tack.
Webster 1913
hard-tack
Hard"-tack` noun
Definitions
A name given by soldiers and sailors to a kind of hard biscuit or sea bread.
Webster 1913
Soft-tack
- leavened bread, as distinguished from hard-tack, or ship bread.
Webster 1913
tack hammer
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noun a light hammer that is used to drive tacks
WordNet
Tack of a flag
(Naut.) , a line spliced into the eye at the foot of the hoist for securing the flag to the halyards.
Webster 1913
tack on
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verb fix to; attach
tack; tag on; append; hang on.
- append a charm to the necklace
WordNet
Tack pins
(Naut.) , belaying pins; also calledjack pins .
Webster 1913
tack together
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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
tailor's tack
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noun a loose, looped, sewing stitch used to transfer marking for darts, etc., from a pattern to material
WordNet
tick-tack-toe
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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
tie tack
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noun a pin used to hold the tie in place
scarfpin; tiepin.
WordNet
To haul the tacks aboard
- to set the courses.
(Naut.) , to set the courses.
Webster 1913
To hold tack
- to last or hold out. Milton.