Definition of tackle in English

WordNet

Noun Plural: tackles
tackle - (American football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground
		football play (American football) a play by the offensive team
		american football american football game
tackle - (American football) a position on the line of scrimmage; "it takes a big man to play tackle"
		lineman (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage
tackle - the person who plays that position on a football team; "the right tackle is a straight A student"
		lineman (American football) the position of a player on a football team who is stationed on the line of scrimmage
tackle - gear used in fishing
		fishing gear, fishing tackle, fishing rig, rig
		paraphernalia, appurtenance, gear a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
		bobber, bobfloat, cork, bob the plug in the mouth of a bottle (especially a wine bottle)
		fishhook a sharp barbed hook for catching fish
		fishing line a length of cord to which the leader and float and sinker and hook are attached
		fishing pole, fishing rod a rod of wood or steel or fiberglass that is used in fishing to extend the fishing line
		gaff an iron hook with a handle; used for landing large fish
		gig a booking for musicians; "they played a gig in New Jersey"
		harpoon a spear with a shaft and barbed point for throwing; used for catching large fish or whales; a strong line is attached to it
		landing net a bag-shaped fishnet on a long handle to take a captured fish from the water
		reel a lively dance of Scottish Highlanders; marked by circular moves and gliding steps
		fishgig, fizgig, spear, lance, gig a firework that fizzes as it moves
tackle - gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails
		rigging
		paraphernalia, appurtenance, gear a toothed wheel that engages another toothed mechanism in order to change the speed or direction of transmitted motion
Verb tackles, tackling, tackled
tackle - seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball
		aggress, attack begin to injure; "The cancer cells are attacking his liver"; "Rust is attacking the metal"
		football game, football any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal
tackle - put a harness; "harness the horse"
		harness
		unharness remove the harness from; "unharness a horse"
		attach be attached; be in contact with
		animal husbandry breeding and caring for farm animals
		inspan attach a yoke or harness to; "inspan the draft animals"
tackle - accept as a challenge; "I'll tackle this difficult task"
		undertake, take on
		face up, confront, face deal with (something unpleasant) head on; "You must confront your problems"; "He faced the terrible consequences of his mistakes"
		rise increase in value or to a higher point; "prices climbed steeply"; "the value of our house rose sharply last year"

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Wiktionary

tackle (Noun)
A system of ropes and blocks used to increase the force applied to the free end of the rope.
tackle (Noun)
Equipment rod, reel, line, lure, etc. used when angling.
tackle (Noun)
By extension, any piece of equipment, particularly gadgetry.
tackle (Noun)
A play where a player attempts to take control over the ball from an opponent, as in rugby or football.
tackle (Noun)
A play where a defender brings the ball carrier to the ground.
tackle (Noun)
Any instance in which one person forces another to the ground.
tackle (Noun)
The offensive positions between each guard and end, offensive tackle .
tackle (Noun)
A person playing that position.
tackle (Noun)
The defensive positions between two ends, defensive tackle .
tackle (Noun)
A person playing that position.
tackle (Noun)
Penis.
tackle (Verb)
To face or deal with attempting to overcome or fight down .
tackle (Verb)
To attempt to take away a ball.
tackle (Verb)
To bring a ball carrier to the ground.

Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘

tackle (n.)
Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.
tackle (n.)
Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons.
tackle (n.)
The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used.
tackle (n.)
To supply with tackle.
tackle (n.)
To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon.
tackle (n.)
To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game.
tackle (n.)
To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.

OmegaWiki DictionaryOmegaWiki Dictionary Ω

tackle
To deal with (something unpleasant) head on.

Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕

tackle
tak′l, n. the ropes, rigging, &c. of a ship: tools, weapons: ropes, &c., for raising heavy weights: a pulley.—v.t. to harness: (prov.) to seize or take hold of, attack, fasten upon.—v.i. to get a hold of.—adj. Tack′led, made of ropes tackled together.—ns. Tack′ling, furniture or apparatus belonging to the masts, yards, &c. of a ship: harness for drawing a carriage: tackle or instruments; Tacks′man, a tenant or lessee. [Scand., Sw. tackel—Ice. taka, to take.]

Marine DictionaryUniversal Dictionary of the Marine ⚓️

tackle
palan, pronounced taicle, a machine formed by the communication of a rope with an assemblage of blocks, and known in mechanics by the name of pulley.
Tackles are used in a ship to raise, remove, or secure weighty bodies; to support the masts; or to extend the sails and rigging. They are either moveable, as communicating with a runner; or fixed, as being hooked in an immoveable station; and they are more or less complicated, in proportion to the effects which they are intended to produce.
If a b d e, fig. 3. plate XI be a single block, upon which are suspended the weights f g, then since the nearest distance of the ropes f g, from the center of motion c, are a c equal to d c, the block will be reduced to the lever or balance a d with respect to its power: Since a c is then equal to d c, it is apparent that f g will always be in equilibrium. As no advantage therefore can be acquired, in raising a weight by an immoveable single block, it is only rendered useful by changing the direction of the moving power. This circumstance is extremely convenient to the labourers, and often absolutely necessary; particularly in raising bodies to a higher station; as from the hold to the upper decks, or from the deck to the masts or yards, &c. which would otherwise be difficult or impracticable to perform. See also the articles BLOCK and WHIP.
When a single block is moveable along with the body to which it is attached, fig. 4. plate XI. as the blocks of the brace-pendants, reef-tackle pendants, jiggers, &c. the momentum of the power is doubled; because it moves twice as fast as the weight, or body to which it is attached. For in the same time that any part of the rope f, moves upward from f to g, equal in length to the two equal ropes d and c, the block, and consequently the weight annexed, will be drawn through the space e h, whose length is equal to one of the ropes only.
When a tackle consists of two or more fixed and moveable blocks, wherein one rope communicates with the whole; if one end of the rope be fixed, as in fig. 5. 6. and 7. in order to proportion the weight to the resistance, the power applied must be to the weight, as one, to twice the number of sheaves in the moveable blocks: because, in the efforts of a tackle, the velocity of the moving power is, to the velocity of the rising or moving body, as twice the number of moveable sheaves to unity, as appears in fig. 5. which consists of one fixed block a, and another moveable as e. For since one rope operates on all the sheaves from g to f, the part at f, lying beyond the fixed block, and called the fall, cannot be drawn down and lengthened, unless the two parts d and c, on each side of the moveable block, be at the same time equally drawn up and shortened. Hence it is evident, that the part a f will be lengthened twice as much as either d or c is shortened, because whatever is taken from each of those parts is added to the length of a f; but the point f, to which the power is applied, descends as fast as a f is lengthened and the point e, to which the weight is fastened, ascends as fast as d or c is shortened. If therefore, a weight suspended at f, be to a weight suspended at e, as one to two, they will balance each other, as being in the reciprocal ratio of their velocities.
Whatever has been observed with regard to the tackles above mentioned, is equally applicable to all others, and is in the same manner demonstrable, viz. that the velocity with which the mechanical force moves, in raising a weight, is to the velocity wherewith the weight rises, as twice the number of moveable sheaves to unity.
A tackle wherein both the blocks are moveable, and communicate with a runner, is represented by fig. 10. plate VIII. That part of the tackle which is fixed to one of the blocks, &c. is called the standing part; all the rest are called running parts; and that whereon the men pull when employing the tackle, is called the fall. The application of the tackle to mechanical purposes is termed hoisting or bowssing. See those articles.
Ground TACKLE. See GROUND TACKLE.

Sailor's Word-BookThe Sailor's Word-Book ⛵

tackle
A purchase formed by the connection of a fall, or rope, with two or more blocks. When a power sustains a weight by a rope over a fixed sheave, the weight and power will be equal; but if one end of the rope be fixed, and the sheave be movable with the weight, then the power will be but half the weight; but in a combination of sheaves, or pulleys, the power will be to the weight as 1 to the numbers of parts of the fall.--Ground-tackle. Anchors, cables, &c.--Tack-tackle. A small tackle used to pull down the tacks of the principal sails to their respective stations, and particularly attached to the main-sails of brigs, sloops, cutters, and schooners.

Vulgar Tongue DictionaryDictionary of the Vulgar Tongue 👅

tackle
A mistress; also good clothes. The cull has tipt his tackle rum gigging; the fellow has given his mistress good clothes. A man's tackle: the genitals.