Crossword-Solution: TACKING
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Tacking | p. pr. & vb. n. | of Tack |
| Tacking | n. | A union of securities given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose his claim. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| Yachtsman's maneuver. | 1 answer |
| Regatta activity | 4 answers |
| Sailor's concern | 5 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
EAAR
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with TACKING (5)
When he came into a town, he went about all day tacking up posters announcing his concert in the evening.
But it was indeed a change to them all, not only from Sandwich, but from their old place, instead of the great river where the huge barges with their mighty brown and yellow sails went tacking from side to side like little pleasure-skiffs, and where the long thin boats shot past with eight and sometimes twelve rowers, their windows now looked out upon a dirty paved yard.
Just as Onund was tacking, the yard was carried away; they lowered the sail and were driven out to sea.
Trains crawl slowly abroad upon the railway lines; little ships are tacking in the Firth; the shadow of a mountainous cloud, as large as a parish, travels before the wind; the wind itself ruffles the wood and standing corn, and sends pulses of varying colour across the landscape.
Laurie Flagg coming to call upon her, on Wednesday afternoon, to remonstrate upon her sudden defection, found her in the act of tacking up a curtain across the pantry window.
Quotes with TACKING (1)
Song of myself I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine, One of the Nation of many nations, the smallest the same and the largest the same, A Southerner soon as a Northerner, a planter nonchalant and hospitable down by the Oconee I live, A Yankee bound my own way ready for trade,…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1968–2021).