tack : Idioms & Phrases


carpet tack

  • noun used to nail down carpets
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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
  1. 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

  • noun a light hammer that is used to drive tacks
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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

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

  • (Naut.), belaying pins; also called jack pins.
Webster 1913

tack together

  • 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
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tailor's tack

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

  • 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.
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tie tack

  • noun a pin used to hold the tie in place
    scarfpin; tiepin.
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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.
Webster 1913