Tackle

Definition: Tackle

Tackle

Noun

1. The person who plays that position on a football team; "the right tackle is a straight A student".

2. Gear consisting of ropes etc. supporting a ship's masts and sails.

3. Gear used in fishing.

4. A position on the line of scrimmage; "it takes a big man to play tackle".

5. (football) grasping an opposing player with the intention of stopping by throwing to the ground.

Verb

1. Accept as a challenge.

2. Set about dealing with; "I'll try to tackle this difficult task".

3. Seize and throw down an opponent player, who usually carries the ball, in American football.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tackle" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Mining

Slang in 1811

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Tackle

Connection

Fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders.

Direction

Verb: direct, manage, govern, conduct; order, prescribe, cut out work for; bead, lead; lead the way, show the way; take the lead, lead on; regulate, guide, steer, pilot; tackle

Instrument

Gear; tackle, tackling, rig, rigging, apparatus, appliances; plant, materiel; harness, trappings, fittings, accouterments; barde; equipment, equipmentage; appointments, furniture, upholstery; chattels; paraphernalia; (belongings).

Undertaking

Take up, take in hand; tackle; set about, go about; set to, fall to, set to work; launch forth; set up shop; put in hand, put in execution; set forward; break the neck of a business, be in, for; put one's hand to, put one's foot in; betake oneself to, turn one's hand to, go to do; begin; broach, one's (originate); put one's hand to the plow, lay one's hand to the plow, put one's shoulder to the wheel.

Crosswords: Tackle

Now I may be packing the kind of tackle, that you normally expect to find swinging about between the hind legs of a Grand National winner (Blackadder Goes Forth; writing credit: Richard Curtis; Ben Elton)

Look at Bobby tackle! I haven't seen a tackle like that since Joe Montana (The Waterboy; writing credit: Tim Herlihy; Adam Sandler)

And I can make every tackle, at the sound of the whistle, (Making Love Out Of Nothing At All; performing artist: Air Supply)

Wheat and Tares: A Story of Two Boys Who Tackle Life on Diverging Lines (1915)

A Football Tackle (1899)

The Wedding Tackle (2000)

Tackle Happy (2000)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• Fishing Tackle in Japan: A Strategic Entry Report, 1997 (reference)

• The World Market for Pulley Tackle and Hoists, Winches, and Capstans Excluding Skip Hoists: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Complete Book of Baits Rigs & Tackle (reference)

• Tackle Box: Note Cards (reference)

• The Art of Trolling: A Complete Guide to Freshwater Methods and Tackle (reference)

• The Complete Book of Tackle Making (reference)

• Tough to Tackle (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Tips on Tackle (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Astronomers are using these three Hubble telescope images of nearby galaxies to help tackle ... Credit: NASA.

A water side bait, tackle and boat rental shop at Lewes. Credit: America's Coastlines.

M&M Live Bait Store features tackle, live bait, and refreshments for the recreational fisherman. Credit: America's Coastlines.

M&M live bait store features tackle and refreshments as well as live bait. Credit: Fisheries.

Fishing tackle and gear at Fishermen's Landing. Credit: Fisheries.

Marty Golden, NMFS Pacific Recreational Fisheries Coordinator, conducting angler education outreach at the Fred Hall Fishing Tackle and Boat Show. Credit: Fisheries.

A bait and tackle shop at a charter fishing boat landing. Credit: Fisheries.

Fishing gear at the SOC Corporation Fishing Tackle Warehouse. Credit: Fisheries.

A full service recreational fishing shop providing boat rentals, bait, tackle, food, etc. Credit: Fisheries.

Daddy's helper assists in preparing tackle while fishing at Manasquan Inlet. Credit: Fisheries.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Business

The CCL is part of the government’s strategy to tackle global warming. (references)

In addition, most medium-large factories are now employing engineering companies as environmental consultants to help tackle their pollution problems. (references)

The Government's target is to reduce vehicle crime by 30 percent over a five-year period from 1999 to 2004. To help tackle the problem, it has set up a committee or 'Vehicle Crime Reduction Action Team' (VCRAT) made up from members of the automobile industry, the police, consumers, insurers and civil servants. (references)

Economic History

United Kingdom

He seeks to tackle voters' top priorities: health care, education, transport, and crime. (references)

Turkey

Additional investments are required to tackle this problem and bring speeds up to demanded levels. (references)

Japan

Talks under the Partnership will tackle trade, macroeconomic, structural reform, and investment issues. (references)

Human Rights

India

In its latest report on West Bengal, AI has criticized West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharya for his comment in January that "the police should ruthlessly tackle criminals and see to it that the message of human rights does not get the better of them." In Uttar Pradesh in March, the NHRC ordered the state government to pay 1,044US (50,000 Rs) compensation to Tajender Rajoura, who was beaten in an Agra jail after his arrest during a Congress Party protest march. (references)

Political Economy

Cote D'ivoire

HIV/AIDS and illiteracy are also problems the government attempts to tackle with limited resources. (references)

Albania

Mayors and other local leaders complain that they lack the funds and legislative authority to tackle critical local issues such as economic development and infrastructure improvement. (references)

Worker Rights

India

NGO's allege that ignorance of trafficking, a lack of political resolve to tackle it, and corruption at the enforcement level perpetuate the problem. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "tackle": block and tackle ♦ Fall and tackle ♦ fishing tackle ♦ Fore tackle ♦ ground tackle ♦ Gun tackle ♦ Gun tackle purchase ♦ Luff tackle ♦ pulley tackle ♦ reef tackle ♦ relieving tackle ♦ rolling tackle ♦ stay tackle ♦ stock tackle ♦ Tack tackle ♦ Tackle board ♦ Tackle fall ♦ Tackle post ♦ tackle the problem of ♦ To come up the tackle fall ♦ To overhaul a tackle ♦ To underrun a tackle ♦ Train tackle ♦ trapping tackle ♦ watch tackle ♦ winding tackle. Additional references.

Beginning with "tackle": tackle-anything, tackle-block, tackle-fall, tackle-making.

Ending with "tackle": fishing-tackle, Fish-tackle, float-tackle, horse-tackle, Top-tackle.

Albanian

takëm (cutlery, furniture, harness, kidney, kit, movables, rig, service, table ware, trappings), zinxhir për orë, vegla (finding, kit, paraphernalia), pajisje (amenities, capital goods, device, equipage, equipment, facilities, fit out, fitment, fitting, fittings, fixing, fixings, gadget, mounting, provision, rig, rigging, supply), ndaloj (arrest, balk, ban, bar, baulk, block, break down, cease, challenge, close down, come to a halt, debar, detain, disallow, disqualify, enjoin, estop, forbid, halt, impede, inhibit, interdict, negative, nip, prevent, prohibit, proscribe, pull up, stall, stop, withhold), mjete ngritjeje, mjete (mean, means, outfit, utensil), lojtar (gambler, player), litarë e rrotulla, kap (affect, apprehend, arrest, attack, avail oneself of, captivate, capture, catch, catch on, catch out, catch up, clasp, clutch, cop, embrace, gain, get, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, gripe, handle, have, hitch, hold, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nip, nobble, overcome, overtake, pick up, pinch, reach, rummage out, seize, snap, snatch, soak up, swoop, take, track down, unhang). (various references)

Arabic 

‏قال كلمة, ‏حجز (attach, attachment, be taken, bespeak, bond, confine, confinement, constrain, derequisition, detain, detention, distrain, foreclose, have reservations, immure, impound, incarcerate, incarceration, keep, lock, mew, put away, recapture, reservation, reserve, restrain, retention, seize, seizure, sequester, sequestration, shut, staunch, stop), ‏حبال أشرعة, ‏توقيف الخصم, ‏عالج مشكلة, ‏عدة (apparatus, equipage, equipment, gang, kit, outfit, several, sundry), ‏إستعرض (enter, inspect, look over, outline, parade, play act, represent, set forth, show, touch on), ‏إصطدام بكرة القدم, ‏أوقف الخصم في الرياضة, ‏شرع (begin, commence, fall to, legislate, proceed, set about, set upon, start, undertake), ‏بكرة (bobbin, eldest, pulley, roller, trundle), ‏بدأ (begin, begin on smth., commence, fall to, incept, initialize, initiate, institute, launch, lead, lead off, proceed, set, set about, set in, start, start off, take, take in, tee). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съоръжения (equipment, fitments, plant, rig), счепквам се с, справям се (acquit oneself, cope, do well, get along, get through, hold one's own, hold up, manage, refer, shift, shift for oneself), такъми, такелаж (ropes), вдигам с полиспаст, опитвам се да спра топката, опитвам се да отнема топката, опит да се отнеме топката, захващам се за, закрепвам с корабни въжета, принадлежности (accessories, adjuncts, appendages, appointments, belongings, clobber, equipage, etceteras, findings, fittings, fixings, habiliment, materials, paraphernalia, requisites, things, trimming), полиспаст (purchase-block), подхващам (approach, begin, take up, undertake), инструменти (things). (various references)

Chinese 

釣魚�"�具 , 滑车. (various references)

Czech

zastavit (arrest, call a halt, call off, cease, check, discontinue, draw up, halt, hock, immobilize, pawn, pull back, put in, quit, stay, stem, stop, suspend), zastavení (cessation, discontinuance, halt, let up, pull back, stand, stay, stillstand, stop, suspension), vypořádat se (square up), vratidlo (beam, windlass), složit (close, compose, deposit, fold, indite, lay down, make out, pack, piece together, pile up, put down, put together, set down, take, take down, throw), složení (composition, constitution, making, structure), skládání (composition), popadnout (get hold of, grab, grasp, grip, seize, snatch, snatch up, whip up), obtìžovat (accost, annoy, bother, harass, haunt, incommode, inconvenience, interfere, intrude, molest, pester, push, trouble, worry), lodní výstroj, kladkostroj (hoist), chopit se (catch on, take). (various references)

Danish

talje (thallium, waist, waistline), udstyr (accessory, additional attachment, appliance, attachment, equipment, get-up, plant, presentation), udrustning (equipment, fitting out, outfit, outfitting, plant). (various references)

Dutch

aanpakken (advance, approach, come on, deal with), aan komen lopen (approach, deal with). (various references)

Esperanto

alpaŝi (approach, deal with). (various references)

Farsi 

نگاه داشتن (Commemorate, Guard, Hold, Keep, Refrain, Retain, Save, Stay, Stop), لوازم کار, گلاویزشدن با, طناب وقرقره , افسارکردن (Halter, Rein, Tether), اسباب (Apparatus, Apparel, Appliance, Appurtenance, Article, Contraption, Contrivance, Doodad, Engine, Gadget, Gear, Implement, Instrument, Layout, Paraphernalia, Rig, Thing, Tool, Utensil), ازعهده برامدن (Acquit, Afford, Answer, Cope), دارای اسباب ولوازم کردن , بعهده گرفتن (Assume, Undertake). (various references)

Finnish

tarvikkeet (accessories, equipment, material, outfit material, requisites, supplies), talja (block, fleece, fur, hide, pelt, skin), takila (rig), varusteet (equipment, outfit), välineet (apparatus, equipment), laitteisto (apparatus, equipment, facilities, outfit), köysistö (rigging). (various references)

French

s'avancer, aborder, équipement. (various references)

Frisian

oanpakke (approach, assault, begin, commence, deal with, start, violate). (various references)

German

takel (block and fall, purchase, rigging of blocks). (various references)

Greek 

κάνω τάκλινγκ, σύσπαστο (block and fall, purchase, rigging of blocks), σύνεργα ψαρικήσ, συσκευή (apparatus, appliance, contrivance, device), πιάνω (catch, clutch, come over, corral, grasp, grip, hold, hook, mesh, nab, nip, pick up), παλάγκο (purchase), εξάρτια (tackling), εξοπλισμός (apparatus, armament, equipment, kit, outfit), επιχειρώ (attempt, embark on, undertake, venture, wage), ανυψωτήρ (hoist, lift), αντιμετωπίζω (breast, come up against, confront, cope, cope with, dare, encounter, envisage, face, face up to, front, weather), δράττομαι (grasp). (various references)

Hebrew 

לתקל, לקשור בעבותות, ל�"תמו�"�" (compete, contest, pit oneself against, take on, wrestle), ל�"פיל (bring down, cast, down, drop, fell, knock down, lay low, overturn, throw down), לרתום סוס, ציו�" (equipment, gear, kit, outfit, rig, supply). (various references)

Hungarian

felszerelés (accessories, accoutrement, accoutrements, apparel, appointments, armature, bag of tricks, device, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, fitting, fittings, garniture, gear, habiliment, installation, kit, materials, mounting, outfit, pack, paraphernalia, plant, rig, rigging, set, setout, setting, supply), csigasor (block, compound pulley). (various references)

Indonesian

katrol, cegatan (checkpoint, interception, sliding), antamer. (various references)

Italian

paranco (pulley, purchase), attrezzatura (equipment, outfit, rig, rigging). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

釣り具 (fishing gear), 索具 (gear, rigging), 滑車 (block, pulley). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

さくぐ (gear, rigging), つりぐ (fishing gear), かっしゃ (block, painting a lively picture of, pulley, vivid description). (various references)

Korean 

낚시 도구. (various references)

Manx

tead troggee (halyard, tackle-fall), greimmey (adhere, adherence, adherence of person, adhesion, attach, bite, bite off, catch, clutch, fishing tackle, grab, grasp, grip, gripping, hold, jam, lock in, monopolization, nab, pin on, seize, seizing, snap, snatch, snatch away, snatching, stick, stitch, stitch up, tooth), cur laue rish (tackle as job), cur fo (let down, scuttle, sink, tackle person about, weather), cullee eeastee (fishing tackle). (various references)

Pig Latin

ackletay.(various references)

Portuguese

talha (garnet, gin, jigger, pulley, tally). (various references)

Romanian

unealtã (cat's paw, creature, dummy, furniture, implement, instrument, minister, pawn, puppet, thing, tool, utensil), se pune pe treabã (get busy, set one's hands to, set to work), se pune pe mâncare, sculã (utensil), placa (metal, veneer, wash), palan, lega (associate, attach, band, bend, bequeath, bind, bind up, brace, charm, coagulate, conjoin, connect, cord, couple, encircle, express, fasten, fetter, hitch, insert, interlink, interlock, join, joint, knit, knot, link, mate, pack, relate, shackle, sheave, start, tether, tie, unite), ataca (affect, approach, assault, attack, engage, fall, go at, go for, hit, mug, pelt, pirate, Raven, start, thrust), aborda (accost, approach, board), înhãma un cal, înaintaş (forbear, foregoer, forerunner, precursor, trail blazer). (various references)

Russian 

схватить (capture, catch, clutch, get, get hold of, grapple, gripe, nab, nail, nip, seize, snap up, snatch), снасти (cordage, ropes), сложный блок, такелаж (cordage, rigging), тали (polyspast), оборудование (appointments, bigticket, equipment, fit-out, installation, layout, machinery, operational materials, outfit, stock in trade), браться оборудование, приспособление (accommodation, adaptation, adjustment, aids and appliances, apliance, appliance, attachment, conformation, contraption, device, doohickey, gadget, gear, jig, readjustment, rig), принадлежности (accessories, adjuncts, belongings, gear, material, materials, outfit, paraphernalia), полиспаст (polyspast), перехватывать (tap, wiretap, wiretapped). (various references)

Scottish

droinip. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pribor (accessories, appurtenance, equipment, implement, materials, paraphernalia, prop, properties, supplies, supply, tackling, utensil), oboriti na zemlju, obaranje na zemlju, latiti se (buckle down to, enter on, set out, set to, take on, take up), čekrk (crab, gin, winch, winder, windlass). (various references)

Spanish

equipo (accouterment, accouterments, apparatus, appointments, crew, equipage, equipment, gang, gear, kit, lot, outfit, party, plant, set, shift, side, squad, team, things), aparejo (apparel, bond, Burton, gear, preparation, pulley block, purchase, rig, rigging). (various references)

Swedish

talja (block and falls, purchase), tackla (rig). (various references)

Thai

เข้าแย่งลูก, ผู้กำกับเส้น (linesman), อวัยวะเพศชาย (beef bayonet, dong, hampton, John Thomas, knob, tadge, tadger), จั�"การแก้ปัญหา. (various references)

Turkish

tutma (catch, containment, grasp, gripping, hold, holding, inhibition, interception, prehension, redemption, repression, restraint, retention, seizure, suppression, take, vogue), topu ayağından almak, takım (band, battery, brigade, bunch, clique, Covey, fitment, gang, gear, group, outfit, platoon, posse, set, side, squad, suit, suite, team, tribe), yakalamak (account, bag, catch, catch hold of, catch up on, claw hold of, clutch, collar, cop, embrace, entrap, get hold of, grab, grapple, grasp, grip, hook, intercept, nab, nail, nobble, overtake, pinch, pull up to, seize, seize on, snap up, snatch, take, take up, trap), uğraşmak (agonize, attack, be at war with, be occupied in doing, be occupied with doing, come at, contend, cope, deal, endeavor, endeavour, engage in, exert oneself, fight, get at, go in for, grapple, groove, haze, labor, labour, make an effort, mess around with, mess with, moil, monkey around with, monkey with, pick on, push, seek, set to, strive, strive against, struggle, toil, try hard, tug, tussle, work away, work hard, wrestle), palanga (block, block and pulley, pulley, pulley block, set of pulleys, whip-and-derry), koyulmak (address oneself to, approach, attack, begin, go, hop to it, launch out, set about, set oneself to do smth., set out, set to, settle down to, sit down, start, start in, start off, start out, turn to), koşum takımı (gear, harness, saddlery), iç oyuncu, girişmek (address oneself to, approach, attack, begin, buckle down to, buckle oneself to, embark, embark upon, enter into, enter on, enter upon, fall to, fling, have a bash, interfere, jut into, kick off, knuckle down to, launch, launch out, pitch into, proceed, set about, set off, set one's hand to, set oneself to do smth., set out, set to, start in, start out, take a step, take the initiative, throw oneself into, undertake, venture on, venture upon, wade in, wade into), ele almak (approach, deal, go about, go around, go at, handle), durdurma (arrest, check, hold, interception, interruption, retention, shutoff, stoppage, stopping, suppression, suspension), donanım (accoutrement, accoutrements, appointments, equipage, equipment, furnishing, gear, hardware, implement, rig, rigging), becermek (do well, get things done, have a screw, knock off, manage, swing), başarmak (accomplish, achieve, arrive, bring home the bacon, bring off, carry out, carry through, click, come through, compass, conquer, contrive, get things done, get through, hit the mark, make out, negotiate, overcome, pan out, pan out well, prosper, pull off, sew up, succeed, swing, win through). (various references)

Ukrainian

упряж (gear), рибальські снасті (angle), хапати (click, grab, grabble, grasp, seize, sick, snap, snatch, swoop, take), такелаж (cordage, rigging), зустрічати вороже, енергійно братися (attack, pitch in, set to), прив'язувати (bind, hitch, rope, tether, tie down, tie on, tie up), приладдя (accessories, belongings, implement, outfit, utensil). (various references)

Vietnamese 

đ�" dùng (set-out, utensil, work). (various references)

Welsh

taclo, ge+r (gear, rubbish). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tackle": tackled, tackler, tacklers, tackles, tackless. (additional references)

Words ending with "tackle": retackle. (additional references)

Words containing "tackle": retackled, retackles. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tackle" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dackel, rackle, tacke, tackel, tackl, tackly, tacle, takel, takkle, taskl, tickel, tikkel. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: cleat, eclat, latke.

-2 letters: alec, cake, calk, cate, celt, kale, lace, lack, lake, late, leak, tace, tack, tael, take, talc, tale, talk, teak, teal, tela.

-3 letters: ace, act, ale, alt, ate, cat, cel, eat, elk, eta, kae, kat, kea, lac, lat, lea, lek, let, tae, tea, tel.

-4 letters: ae, al, at, el, et, ka.

+1 letter: catlike, placket, tackled, tackler, tackles, talcked.

+2 letters: blackest, klatches, latchkey, plackets, retackle, slackest, tacklers, tackless.

+3 letters: chalkiest, cockatiel, hackliest, jacksmelt, klatsches, latchkeys, retackled, retackles, skeptical, stackable, trackless.

+4 letters: alkahestic, alpenstock, backlisted, blackheart, blackwater, bluejacket, cockatiels, cocktailed, crackliest, craterlike, jacketless, jacksmelts, lackluster, pocketable, retackling, tracklayer, trancelike, turtleback.

+5 letters: alpenstocks, backlighted, blackhearts, blacklisted, blacklister, blacktopped, blackwaters, bluejackets, candlestick, cartoonlike, electroweak, factorylike, kinematical, kinetically, lacklusters, latticework, leatherback, leatherneck, marketplace, rickettsial, skeptically, steeplejack, stickhandle, stickleback, tracklayers, trackwalker, turtlebacks.