Tackling is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TACKLING in dictionary:

VERB:
• make determined efforts to deal with (a problem or difficult task)
• initiate discussion with (someone) about a disputed or sensitive issue
• try to take the ball from (an opponent) by intercepting them
• try to stop the forward progress of (the ball carrier) by seizing them and knocking them to the ground
NOUN:
• equipment for a particular purpose
• the equipment required for a task or sport
• a mechanism consisting of ropes, pulley blocks, hooks, or other things for lifting heavy objects.
• an act of playing the ball, or attempting to do so, when it is in the possession of an opponent
• an act of seizing and attempting to stop a player in possession of the ball.
• a player who lines up next to the end along the line of scrimmage.
• Furniture of the masts and yards of a vessel, as cordage, sails, etc.
• Instruments of action; as, fishing tackling.
• The straps and fixures adjusted to an animal, by which he draws a carriage, or the like; harness.
• a man's genitals.
• the running rigging and pulleys used to work a boat's sails.
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to seize and throw to the ground

Words related to TACKLING

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How to use TACKLING in a sentence

• And if I ever throw four sixes, it is when I am tackling some unsuspecting old ass of a watering place echo.
• The next day when we were tossed with an exceeding tempest, they lightened the ship, and the third day we cast out with our own hands the tackling of the ship.
• The tiger had sustained a shock at seeing the unknown monster he was tackling roll over, and for a time satisfied himself by growling savagely.
• The fellow was an ingenious workman, and by my instructions, in ten days finished a pleasure-boat, with all its tackling, able conveniently to hold eight Europeans.
• Especially has this been true when tackling the problems more immediately affecting women, because these are the truly difficult problems.
• When the sun sank and when the ways were darkened Athene dragged the ship to where it should be launched and brought the tackling to it.
• The four-foot line also marks the goal section, a space 4 x 8 feet, in which indiscriminate tackling is allowed when the ball is within.
• He did not much relish the idea of alone tackling the redoubtable Umhlonhlo, a savage of muscle, who was reported to be always armed to the teeth.
• This morning the work had begun with practice kicks, passing from that to the work of tackling the dummy.
• Two splashes, occurring almost in the same second, testified to the tackling skill that Reade and Darrin had acquired on the gridiron.
• But above all there was a fortitude, an all-round power of tackling existence, which comes from complete indifference to personal suffering or personal success.
• It is true that an immense joy and hope come with it to this business of tackling imperfection, of adjusting itself to the newly found centre of life.
• We did not know at the time that we were tackling Lord Methuen and five thousand men, but such was the case.
• The boy had almost too much spirit, as the principal said, and when he was roused he did not mind tackling the biggest and strongest boys in the school.
• It seemed as if I never should do anything with the tackling.
• The tackling was let go, the men gave a cheer, and the boat, with its occupant, was borne away by the current.
• When I got near by home I stripped off the tackling and turned the mule loose.

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