A loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together.
(Nautical) the act of changing tack.
1 She'd been to dozens of bars in the area, tacking up posters.
2 But in tacking so frequently he was liable to make a mistake.
3 Yet these fools merely go tacking new additions on to the old.
4 Sailing ships travel faster when tacking than when sailing with the wind.
5 You look down an alley, and see ships tacking for the Baltic.
6 Sanitary Window Screen . - Try tacking cheese cloth on the pantry window screen frame.
7 It was a catboat, quite far off, tacking down from the Headland.
8 Kathleen, as she tucked in the blanket, heard his feet ticker - tacking away.
9 It is nothing but tacking , tacking , tacking - akindof stitching the stream.
10 Artemis hard-copied every page, tacking them to the walls of his study.
11 His hammer made a shallow tacking sound, driving the narrow nails through.
12 If, however, she were really tacking , our situation would indeed be critical.
13 There is no absurd conventionality, tacking a spinster to a married woman.'
14 Can't we have an agreeable person without tacking on a disagreeable one?
15 But the solution isn't as simple as tacking to the centre.
16 Hands up all those who know the difference between tacking and wearing ship.
Другие примеры для термина "tacking"
Grammar, pronunciation and more
Tacking в диалектах
Соединенные Штаты Америки