Word Finder - tack

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A small nail with a flat head.

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A thumbtack.

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A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.

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The lower corner on the leading edge of a sail relative to the direction of the wind.

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A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind. See also reach, gybe.

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A direction or course of action, especially a new one.

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The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.

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The distance a sailing vessel runs between these maneuvers when working to windward; a board.

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A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is close-hauled; also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.

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Any of the various equipment and accessories worn by horses in the course of their use as domesticated animals. Saddles, stirrups, bridles, halters, reins, bits, harnesses, martingales, and breastplates are all forms of horse tack.

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The stickiness of a compound, related to its cohesive and adhesive properties.

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The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.

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Food generally; fare, especially of the bread kind.

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That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix.

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A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.

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Confidence; reliance.

He ran his hand through his curly hair and closed the door to the tack room.

Music drifted in from the tack room.

He yanked her away hard enough to knock the breath from her and shoved her into a small tack room.

She carried the water to Princess and then crossed the tack room to the other section of the barn.

To save his client from the gallows, Mr Gordon's defense counsel changed tack by calling evidence to show he was insane.

Small hoop earrings, a tie tack, or a ring will suffice.

If you miss a rent payment, your landlord gets annoyed and might tack on some late fees.

The Archbishop of Canterbury using a metal detector to locate a carpet tack stuck to a horse.

If you'd like to send them to friends from your phone, however, you'll need to tack an extra picture and video messaging package to the plan you have.

If you think you'll need one of these features, you tack on additional money when you pay for your regular monthly plan.

After the index rate is determined, lenders also tack on an amount known as the margin.

A lender might offer low interest rates on their equity loans but then tack on a one percent origination fee or inflate closing fees to make a bigger profit.

For penguins, tack an image of icecaps to the back of a shadowbox and add some faux snow to the bottom before placing the penguins inside.

In addition, many accessories are available, including fences, stables and tack.

Simply blow up a mixture of clear, silver and white balloons and tack them onto a full nude, black or ivory colored bodysuit or a turtleneck and leggings.

One size fits all - and with a mere $2 price tag, they're the perfect item to tack on to all orders.

When you begin your quest for a leather satchel, it makes sense to visit both leather goods stores and tack or saddle shops.

However, even if you are as sharp as a tack, don’t ever make others feel bad if they are not up to your intellectual speed.

This site also offers articles that might be of interest to equestrians, such as Preventing the Theft of Horses and Tack and Horse Care and Your Horse's Feet.

Another equestrian boot is the Tack Classic Mid Equine Boot.

I tried another tack.

Hundreds upon hundreds of sit-ups won't do it, so here's a flexible yet effective stand-alone routine as well as a quick-and-dirty version you can tack onto your regular jog or weight workout.

You can tack a few songs on the end to cool down to round it out.

Some of their earlier fans weren't thrilled with this new tack, but Discovery became another smash hit for Daft Punk.

Providence takes a progressive tack towards the struggles modern families encounter as they make mistakes, work, adopt stray animals, have accidents and do their best to make the right decision.

Vara shushed them as the sound of several voices drifted into the tack room.

Among the industrial establishments of the city are stove and range factories, flour mills, rolling mills, distilleries, breweries, shoe factories, copper refining works, nail and tack factories, glass works and agricultural implement factories.

D'Estrees, who was stationed with his squadron at the south end of the line, went to sea on the port tack, heading to the S.E.

The English, who constituted the centre and rear, stood out on the starboard tack.

Hobbes then tried another tack.

When you want to use an e-mail name that might be already taken, you tack on a number to make it unique.

Outside, an L-shaped stable block offers 4 stables, tack room and also incorporates a double carport.

The only other equipment is a bulldog clip and a large chunk of blue tack.

In the saddle All tack and riding equipment should be well maintained, correctly fitted and suitable for the purpose.

Be like a many-headed Hydra, flexible, changing tack and tactics all the time.

In the rear garden of the house we have a detached outbuilding that was once the tack room for the farm.

Up to this point the introduction seems set fair to become a polemic, but Arnheim then changes tack.

Novel SERMs (selective estrogen receptor modulators) are taking a different tack in the R&D stakes.

Instead, TACK's trainers have helped develop call guides to encourage spontaneity.

Now on starboard tack going across 191 across Swanage Bay.

On a similar, but opposite, tack we only conceded more than one goal on a club record six occasions.

The blue tack is used to stick the clip to the lamp rim.

The weather had by then got much worse and she was kept hauled to the wind on the port tack.

Horse tack thefts yet again There have been a number of horse tack thefts yet again There have been a number of horse tack thefts in the area.

In 1997/8 a miniature stormtrooper graced the ceiling, hanging upside down with feet encased in a lump of blu tack.

I wasn't so much cutting as scratching I started with a thumb tack and moved to safety pins.

It can be used to security mark any quantity of leather tack or harness.

He still reached the mark ahead of Val who had taken an early port tack inshore.

There are three reasons for this - somewhat unexpected - change of tack.

She is not only a star but as sharp as a tack.