Tack
A stain; a tache.
A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.
A rope used to hold in place the foremost lower corners of the courses when the vessel is closehauled (see Illust. of Ship); also, a rope employed to pull the lower corner of a studding sail to the boom.
The part of a sail to which the tack is usually fastened; the foremost lower corner of fore-and-aft sails, as of schooners (see Illust. of Sail).
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 closehauled with the wind on her starboard side; hence, the run of a vessel on one tack; also, a change of direction.
A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
Confidence; reliance.
To fasten or attach.
Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.
To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, 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.
To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4.
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Tack Quotations
Let's give the conventions back to the politicians. If we think there's any news, we can tack it on afterward as commentary. But the conventions should be their show, not ours.
Don Hewitt
I like poems you can tack all over with a hammer and there are no hollow places.
John Ashbery
Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.
Ian Gilmour
Tack Translations
tack in German is heften, Stift
tack in Spanish is tachuela
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