Tacking is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TACKING in dictionary:

VERB:
• fasten or fix in place with tacks
• fasten (pieces of cloth) together temporarily with long stitches
• add or append something to something already existing
• alter the course of (a boat) by tacking
• make a series of changes of course while sailing
• change course by turning a boat's head into and through the wind
NOUN:
• a nautical manoeuvre
• a small, sharp broad-headed nail
• a drawing pin
• a long stitch used to fasten fabrics together temporarily, prior to permanent sewing.
• a method of dealing with a situation or problem; a course of action or policy
• a distance sailed between tacks
• a rope for securing the corner of certain sails.
• the corner to which a rope is fastened.
• the quality of being sticky
• equipment used in horse riding, including the saddle and bridle.
• cheap, shoddy, or tasteless material
• A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim.
• a loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together
• (nautical) the act of changing tack
• an act of changing course by turning a boat's head into and through the wind, so as to bring the wind on the opposite side.
• a boat's course relative to the direction of the wind
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to fasten with tacks (short, sharp-pointed nails)

Words related to TACKING

tack10 tacked13 tacks11

Words that contain TACKING

stacking15 tackings15 attacking16 retacking16 stackings16 untacking16 restacking17 tictacking19 unstacking17 reattacking18 ticktacking24 thumbtacking26 counterattacking25

How to use TACKING in a sentence

• They are going to give Friar Green the job of tacking cards because he is quick on his feet.
• I was standing in a chair, training the long branches and tacking them against the house, when a gentleman drove by with a camera in his wagon.
• On the second morning Craddock became aware that sail had been reduced in the vessel, and that she was tacking slowly, with a light breeze on her beam.
• He half expected to hear the crisp little tacking of machine guns from its shelter, and he uneasily scanned the wood at his left.
• In doing this, they made one stretch so far in our direction, in the hope of tacking in their enemies wakes, that I saw they would probably speak us.
• Tacking the Bridget, he stood in that direction, and on reaching the place, found that there was a passage through the rock of about a hundred yards in width.
• Too steady a seaman, however, to abandon his object unnecessarily, he stood on, and soon found he could weather the rocks under his lee, tacking in time.
• Mark chose that which came in from the northward, both because it was the nearest, and because he could lay his course in it, without tacking, for most of the way.
• Before he raised his eyes again the brig had hoisted her anchor, and was tacking under full canvas out of the Quebec basin.
• Wearing is surer than tacking, but loses ground to leeward.
• But when the signal is made for tacking, or on any similar occasion, care is to be taken to open, in succession, to a sufficient distance for performing the intended evolution.
• Continuing to stand south-southwest, after the British began tacking, they at last gained ground sufficiently to come up to windward, the side on which their other division was.
• It was then blowing half a gale, but the wind had shifted round from the shore, so that very little tacking was required.
• At least grown-up people have a habit of tacking a little lesson on to the end of the stories they tell to children.
• The sheriff and his deputy good-naturedly agreed to do their tacking up of the notices in front of the camera, and so an unexpected film was obtained.
• Tacking probably came bit by bit, like other new inventions.
• He spoke casually of a cracked plank or two that would be strengthened by tacking pieces of canvas and tin both inside and out.
• Before tacking it to the board, cut off the head of a nail and drive it in the board at a point where the loose end of the tin will cover it.
• Before tacking the fourth side, fold a couple of newspapers to the right size and shove them in between the carpet and the bottom of the box for a cushion.
• TUESDAY 8 DECEMBER 1801 The wind was then at south-west, and we stretched onward until one in the morning, before tacking to the north-west for the land.
• But it seems, the tacking is owing to metaphysical speculations.
• We had been tacking about all the afternoon, first south, then north, not with any particular purpose, but aimlessly.
• Tomorrow they will start back, tacking against the stream, as the imported brides are doing before them.
• Tacking inshore we found a small bight, with shoal water, on a bank of mud extending right across, beyond which the entrance of a creek fringed with mangroves was discovered.
• The light, fair breeze of yesterday evening sent us forward fifteen miles in an hour or two, and seventy or eighty miles of tacking to-day has barely secured as much progress.
• The ludicrous epilogue, which has been described as the unnatural tacking of a comic tale to a tragical head, was certainly popular, however, and long continued so.
• While we paused, and were debating what course to pursue, as we had no compass, we observed the ship tacking and standing toward us.
• She kept tacking to and fro in a widening compass, for she was sailing dead into the wind.
• Tacking is slow work, especially all in sight of home.
• The wind was still in the west, so we had to keep tacking, and it was afternoon when we passed Cornwall and steered for the south side of the St Lawrence.

Similar words containing TACK without suffix ing

tack10 stack11 tacks11 tacky14 attack12 retack12 stacks12 tacked13 tacker12 tacket12 tackey15 tackle12 untack12 tackie12 attacks13 restack13 retacks13 stacked14 stacker13 stacket13 stackup15 subtack15 tackers13 tackets13 tackety16 tackier13 tackies13 tackify19 tackily16 tackled14 tackler13 tackles13 tietack13 tintack13 unstack13 untacks13 attacked15 attacker14 hardtack18 haystack20 helitack17 reattack14 restacks14 retacked15 retackle14 stackers14 stackets14 stacking15 stackups16 subtacks16 tackiest14 tackings15 tacklers14 tackless14 tackling15 tacksman16 tacksmen16 ticktack20 tietacks14 tintacks14 unstacks14 untacked15 untackle14 attackers15 attacking16 attackman17 attackmen17 hardtacks19 haystacks21 helitacks18 reattacks15 restacked16 retacking16 retackled16 retackles15 stackable17 stackings16 stackless15 stackroom17 stackyard19 tackboard18 tackified19 tackifier18 tackifies18 tackiness15 tacklings16 thumbtack22 ticktacks21 tictacked18 unstacked16 untacking16 untackled16 untackles15 tacketier15 attackable18 hackmatack27 postattack18 reattacked17 restacking17 retackling17 Show more ...

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