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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

... voyage in which one pleasant day succeeded another, Cornelia awoke one morning to hear the creak of blocks and tackle as the sailors were lowering sail. The full banks of oars were plashing in the waves, and on deck many feet were rushing to and fro, while officers shouted their orders. Coming out of her cabin, the young lady saw that the end of her seafaring was close at hand. Even to one ...

— A Friend of Caesar - A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Time, 50-47 B.C. • William Stearns Davis

... college days were not so far distant that he had yet lost any of the splendid physique that had made him an All-American tackle. In any physical combat with the slight gray-haired stranger, Gordon knew that he should be able to break the other in two ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1931 • Various

... Prestrud An Original Inhabitant of the Antarctic Stubberud Reviews the Situation Camp on the Barrier: Eastern Expedition A Broken-off Cape Off to the East The Junction of the Great Barrier and King Edward Land Improvised Sounding Tackle The Leader of the Eastern Expedition, Prestrud, on Scott's Nunatak First in King Edward Land In King Edward Land: After a Three Days' Storm On Scott's Nunatak Scott's Nunatak The "Fram" at the Ice-edge, January, 1912 The "Kainan Maru" ...

— The South Pole, Volumes 1 and 2 • Roald Amundsen

... frail body, he did the most work, was always the last of the group to spring to the life-line and always the first to loose the life-line and slosh knee-deep or waist-deep through the churning water to attack the immense and depressing tangle of rope and tackle. ...

— The Mutiny of the Elsinore • Jack London

... from the lawn, where Aileen and Charles were arranging fishing tackle, was wafted through the open window and cut athwart the dry speech of the lawyer. My eyes found her and lingered on the soft curves, the rose-leaf colouring, the eager face framed in a sunlit aureola of radiant hair. Already ...

— A Daughter of Raasay - A Tale of the '45 • William MacLeod Raine

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