Crossword-Solution: TACK 4 letters, 177 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 10

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Word	Word Type	Definition
Tack	n.	A stain; a tache.
Tack	n.	A peculiar flavor or taint; as, a musty tack.
Tack	n.	A small, short, sharp-pointed nail, usually having a broad, flat head.
Tack	n.	That which is attached; a supplement; an appendix. See Tack, v. t., 3.
Tack	v. t.	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.
Tack	v. t.	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).
Tack	v. t.	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.
Tack	v. t.	A contract by which the use of a thing is set, or let, for hire; a lease.
Tack	v. t.	Confidence; reliance.
Tack	v. t.	To fasten or attach.
Tack	v. t.	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.
Tack	v. t.	In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to.
Tack	v. t.	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.
Tack	v. i.	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.

We have 177 clues for the answer “TACK”

Clue	Answers
APPEND (fig.)	1 answer
Adhesive quality	1 answer
Adhesiveness	1 answer
Against-the-wind sailing maneuver	1 answer
Append, with on	1 answer
Approach in handling something	1 answer
BILL in Parliament, clause appended to	1 answer
BOARD (naut.)	1 answer
Baste, in sewing	1 answer
Brad alternative	1 answer
Broad-headed nail	1 answer
Bulletin board affixer	1 answer
Bulletin board hardware	1 answer
Bulletin board insertion	1 answer
Bulletin board piece	1 answer
Bulletin board pin	1 answer
Bulletin-board item	1 answer
CLAUSE appended to bill in Parliament	1 answer
COURSE of action (fig.)	1 answer
COURSE of policy (fig.)	1 answer
Change direction of a sailboat	1 answer
Change direction when sailing close hauled.	1 answer
Change directions, in yachting	1 answer
Change the course of a sloop	1 answer
Close-hauled course	1 answer
Corkboard accessory	1 answer
Corkboard fastener	1 answer
Corkboard insert	1 answer
Corkboard item	1 answer
Corkboard sticker	1 answer
EXTRANEOUS clause appended to bill in parliament	1 answer
FASTEN carpet down	1 answer
Fasten temporarily	1 answer
Fastener pressed with a thumb	1 answer
Gear for a horse	1 answer
Go about, in sailing.	1 answer
Go in a zigzag course.	1 answer
Hardware for a bulletin board	1 answer
Hole-in-the-wall creator	1 answer
It could hold your notice	1 answer
It may be on a bulletin board	1 answer
Item on a bulletin board	1 answer
Jockey's equipment	1 answer
Maneuver to combat the wind.	1 answer
Notice holder	1 answer
Notice poster's need	1 answer
Of a sailing ship, alter course through the wind	1 answer
Office board member?	1 answer
Popular fastener	1 answer
Poster fastener	1 answer

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Sentences with TACK (5)

For three months, during which a day seemed an age, the _Abraham Lincoln_ furrowed all the waters of the Northern Pacific, running at whales, making sharp deviations from her course, veering suddenly from one tack to another, stopping suddenly, putting on steam, and backing ever and anon at the risk of deranging her machinery, and not one point of the Japanese or American coast was left unexplored.

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea Jules Verne 1994

Trina had been very busy since the early morning, coming and going at everybody's call, now running down the street after another tack-hammer or a fresh supply of cranberries, now tying together the ropes of evergreen and passing them up to one of the grand ladies as she carefully balanced herself on a step-ladder.

McTeague Frank Norris 2006

Soon we saw the studding sails and all kites come down by the run and her yards braced up sharp on the same tack as ours.

The Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial Issue Various 2008

But if a woman’s got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it’s thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!” So she understood his moral attitude, at least, and she knew he would act accordingly.

Sons and Lovers David Herbert Lawrence 1995

The fourth day out, I think (we were then working down the east side of the Gulf of Siam, tack for tack, in light winds and smooth water)--the fourth day, I say, of this miserable juggling with the unavoidable, as we sat at our evening meal, that man, whose slightest movement I dreaded, after putting down the dishes ran up on deck busily.

The Secret Sharer Joseph Conrad 1995

Quotes with TACK (3)

here was a particular kind of energy in those early days, something I've only really found in startups. The regulars - the boring 9-to-5 people - haven’t invaded the world yet. All around you are people who practically buzz with mental adrenaline - the kind of people who sneer at words like policy and dress code and fill the office at nights with pizza and bad jokes and the relentless tip-tack-clack of keyboards. They push boundaries, turn small ideas into game-changers and s…

Yudhanjaya Wijeratne Numbercaste

Recently I've been having the fantasy more and more" the one where Tack and I run away, disappear under the wide-open sky into the forest with leaves like green hands, welcoming us. In my fantasy, the more we walk, the cleaner we get, like the woods are rubbing away the past few years, all the blood and the fighting and the scars - sloughing off the bad memories and the false starts, leaving us shiny and new, like dolls just taken out of the package. And in this fantasy, my f…

Lauren Oliver Raven

I mean, if you're asking a fellow to come out of a room so that you can dismember him with a carving knife, it's absurd to tack a 'sir' on to every sentence. The two things don't go together.

P. G. Wodehouse Thank You, Jeeves

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 165 times in crossword archives (1951–2025).