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Definitions for Tackle

[1] equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.
[2] a mechanism or apparatus, as a rope and block or a combination of ropes and blocks, for hoisting, lowering, and shifting objects or materials; purchase.
[3] any system of leverage using several pulleys.
[4] Nautical . the gear and running rigging for handling a ship or performing some task on a ship.
[5] an act of tackling, as in football; a seizing, grasping, or bringing down.
[6] Football . either of the linemen stationed between a guard and an end. the position played by this lineman.
[7] (formerly) tack1(def 8) .
[8] to undertake to handle, master, solve, etc.: to tackle a difficult problem.
[9] to deal with (a person) on some problem, issue, etc.
[10] to harness (a horse).
[11] Football . to seize, stop, or throw down (a ball-carrier).
[12] Soccer , Field Hockey . to block or impede the movement or progress of (an opponent having the ball) with the result of depriving the opponent of the ball.
[13] to seize suddenly, especially in order to stop.
[14] Football . to tackle an opponent having the ball.
[15] any mechanical system for lifting or pulling, esp an arrangement of ropes and pulleys designed to lift heavy weights
[16] the equipment required for a particular occupation, etc fishing tackle
[17] nautical the halyards and other running rigging aboard a vessel
[18] slang a man's genitals
[19] sport a physical challenge to an opponent, as to prevent his progress with the ball
[20] American football a defensive lineman
[21] (tr) to undertake (a task, problem, etc)
[22] (tr) to confront (a person, esp an opponent) with a difficult proposition
[23] sport (esp in football games) to challenge (an opponent) with a tackle

Words related to Tackle

begin, accept, try, undertake, confront, stop, halt, accouterment, goods, gear, apparatus, paraphernalia, rigging, materiel, appliance, outfit, impedimenta, hook, machinery, rig

Words nearby Tackle

tackboard, tacker, tacket, tackie, tackies, tackle, tackling, tacksman, tacky, tacloban, tacmahack

Origin of Tackle

1200–50; Middle English takel gear, apparatus < Middle Low German; akin to take

Other words from Tackle

tack·ler , noun
re·tack·le , verb (used with object), re·tack·led, re·tack·ling.

Word origin for Tackle

C13: related to Middle Low German takel ship's rigging, Middle Dutch taken to take

Synonyms for Tackle

accouterment, apparatus, appliance, gear, goods, habiliments, hook, impedimenta, implements, line, machinery, materiel, outfit, paraphernalia, rig, rigging, tools, trappings