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A tack is a small sharp nail, usually with a large flat head. They are used for fitting a light or thin object to a more solid one, such as carpet to the floor.
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In nautical terms, a run is the tack of a sailing vessel in which the wind comes from astern. The term run is also applied to that part of the hull of a vessel near the stern where it curves upwards and inwards.
The name tack is given to a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom and to the part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners.
In nautical terms, tack refers to the direction of a vessel in regard to the trim of her sails; as, the starboard tack, or port tack; the former when she is close-hauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack.
In sailing, tack means to change the direction of a vessel when sailing close-hauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course. In tacking, a vessel is brought to point at first directly to windward, and then so that the wind will blow against the other side.
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In sailing, the tack of a flag is a line spliced into the eye at the foot of the hoist for securing the flag to the halyards.
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In sailing, a tack tackle is a small tackle to pull down the tacks of the principal sails.
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Hammer and tack is British building rhyming slang for back.
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Tack is slang for cooked food.
Tack is slang for squalor, shabbiness, seediness.
Tack is slang for cheap, inferior, in bad taste.
Tack is slang for join a couple in marriage.
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Tack attack is British slang for a bout of bad taste.
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Tin tack is British rhyming slang for fact.
Tin tack is British rhyming slang for dismissal from employment (sack).
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