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Tackle   /tˈækəl/   Listen
Tackle

verb
(past & past part. tackled; pres. part. tackling)
1.
Accept as a challenge.  Synonyms: take on, undertake.
2.
Put a harness.  Synonym: harness.  Antonym: unharness.
3.
Seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball.
noun
1.
The person who plays that position on a football team.
2.
Gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails.  Synonym: rigging.
3.
Gear used in fishing.  Synonyms: fishing gear, fishing rig, fishing tackle, rig.
4.
(American football) a position on the line of scrimmage.
5.
(American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground.



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"Tackle" Quotes from Famous Books



... his ragged coat about him with a gesture of patient pity, then answered with a slow, pained dignity. "Co'se I knows what a hero is, sah. How could I know dat I wanted ter be one if I didn't? A hero is a pusson, sah, what ain't afraid to tackle a job too big fur other folks, an' goes right froo wid it or ...
— A Little Dusky Hero • Harriet T. Comstock
... part of the entire population of those provinces; and many thousands, who did not themselves sail in the fishing fleets, found employment in the ship and boat-building wharves and in the making of sails, cordage, nets and other tackle. It was in this hazardous occupation that the hardy race of skilled and seasoned seamen, who were destined to play so decisive a part in the coming wars of independence, had their early training. ...
— History of Holland • George Edmundson
... the main hatch removed, and a gun-tackle purchase rigged before the boat arrived with breakfast. I had grown so suspicious of the wreck, that it was a positive relief to me to look down into the hold, and see it full, or nearly full, ...
— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 13 (of 25) • Robert Louis Stevenson
... refuse to meet this evil straightforwardly because the votes which keep them in power are in the pockets of the publicans; and you socialist leaders refuse just as much as the middle classes really to tackle the drink question because you're as keen for votes as they are. You've got to look the situation in the face. We're on the threshold of a new era. In every civilized country, in the towns and in the rural districts, ...
— Woman on Her Own, False Gods & The Red Robe - Three Plays By Brieux • Eugene Brieux
... changing the course of my thoughts. For three days I was hurried from place to place, and not a single thing that I liked to do did I do—I was completely put out of my own way—my ideas were forced into new channels. I heard of nothing but of fishing and fishing-tackle—of the pleasures there would be in the shooting season—of shooting-jackets, and powder-horns, and guns, and proof guns. All this was terribly irksome at the time, and yet I was conscious that it was of service to me, and I ...
— Tales & Novels, Vol. IX - [Contents: Harrington; Thoughts on Bores; Ormond] • Maria Edgeworth


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