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Tacking is a legal doctrine of a union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim.
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The talbot was a large, whitish hound with long hanging ears and heavy jaws bred for tacking and hunting. It is believed that the talbot was the forerunner of the modern bloodhound.
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Club-hauling is a method of tacking a sailing ship in dangerous situations by letting go the lee-anchor as soon as the wind is out of the sails, her head being thus brought to the wind, and then cutting the cable and trimming the sails as soon as she pays off.
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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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