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Sentence Examples A separate driveway leads to the stable areas, which comprise a large loose stable, three loose boxes and a tack room. She passed the tree where the horse's tack was propped and grabbed Hawk's bridle, the silverwork glinting in the moonlight. Push the panel into the glued surface and use a level to make certain it is plumb before you tack it into position and glue it down permanently. Working in opposite corners, pull the fabric tight, roll edges under, and temporarily tack in place. Make sure you remove all the sanding dust with a vacuum cleaner and a tack cloth. If squirrels become a problem at a tree-mounted feeder, tack a 3-foot section of sheet metal around the trunk or branch. On the water, a yacht on starboard tack has undisputed right-of-way in any confrontation. Royal Caribbean has recognized that it is heading for this iceberg, and its captains have ordered a sharp tack. The enemy ships made a clumsy tack northerly, not expecting to see Indefatigable in their path. Lobbying by the organisations failed to persuade the government to change tack, however. Although the British made some initial moves in that direction, they soon changed tack. We were underweight but changed tack about a month ago and are now slightly overweight. Pull the webbing tight and tack it in place using two rows of size 12 tacks. In Cubao, the Samaritana Transformation Ministries group takes a different tack by offering women friendship and acceptance first and foremost. One tiny dot of glue per shape is all that is needed to tack down the tissue to the acetate. Wicklow hit a purple patch on the restart to tack on five points in nine minutes without reply and without missing a pot at goal. To make it easier to use the hooks, you can lash two stainless steel rings through the cringles at each tack reef location. At present they have to travel to the stables, carrying saddles and other tack, every day and to ensure the security of the property. Failure of tack was not uncommon as well, with saddle cantles breaking and harness straps failing. Use of defective tack is not a risk of horseback riding that an equine provider is unable to eliminate. Show More Sentences I don't know why the rest of my colleagues didn't say something to me because I was talking flat tack. The tack hammers are very small but the actual tacks themselves are very sharp. Again the Government changed tack, introducing a phased wind-down of the scheme for an additional six months. I think for my own sanity and emotional balance, that's the best tack I can take with it, really. In some cases, the adhesive should be allowed to tack sufficiently in order to provide greater adhesion and prevent adhesive bleed through. Her tack was resting on a bale of hay in front of the stall, and soon the mare was saddled and bridled. Keen riders and horse owners were urged to attend the awareness day to help prevent thefts of trailers, tack and horse boxes. Grooming kits, buckets, water troughs and tack should be cleaned thoroughly and disinfected daily. Not content with that, Malkmus will often tack on a coda that draws on ragtime, rap and showtunes in equal measure. Do you have a tack room full of various bits, halters, lead ropes, lunge whips, lunge lines, and other training equipment or behavior modifiers? Although the bar tack is frequently the buttonhole of choice, many machines can make rounded and keyhole buttonholes, as well as eyelets. The vessel put about on the other tack, but for want of wind, or not having sail enough, she drifted into the ground swell towards the beach. If the makers of the film did one thing right, with what is otherwise wholly sentimental tack, it was to cast these two as the leads. When they stopped and made camp, she was unable to relieve her horse of its tack. Sailors had various methods for making hard tack palatable, e.g. crumbling it into the dish called lobscouse. The other tack taken is that what appear to us to be unanswered prayers actually are instances of God's refusals for our own good. Two loose boxes, a tack room and a covered work area are in the stable block. The other, a single-storey structure, has a stable, a tack room and a laundry. It is gratifying to know that I provided much amusement to motorists as I attempted to tack my way to the Milner Road turn-off. The man picked up a tack from a rickety wooden table and fastened the clipping to a paint-peeled wall. Show More Sentences Instead, trustees will take a different tack during their 30-minute meeting. However, when Russia sent Sputnik into orbit in October 1957, he changed tack and put his efforts into America's space exploration programme. The reason I adopt this tack is because entropy of the universe is said to be directional. I found him to be sharp as a tack analytically while still in his nineties. Unless you are quite handy with a circular saw, it's a good idea to clamp or tack a guide onto the work piece. I just wrote this in an email and since I liked it better than what I wrote above, I thought I'd just tack it on. In LaChapelle's interpretation of the desert oasis, it is almost as if the city does not know that it is the epitome of tack and distaste. When you spike the tack shackle the pressure is completely released from the sail and the sail is blanketed behind the mainsail. Too many training methods place too much emphasis on what kind of tack or equipment to use with the trainer conveniently selling that equipment. Though there was a large amount of care equipment, tack, and supplies, there were only four horses. It's usually done with a tack cloth which is an open weave fabric treated with a wax. Along with making riding tack from scratch, he also mends pieces and fits his work to the horse. The last two to three times you work your horse before the show, ride her with your show tack and make sure all equipment fits properly. The roof skin is put on here, the feed mangers are added, and all of the internal components, such as the rear tack room, are added. Participants must know the stunsail tack bend and bowline knots before coming to this lesson. The three stood in silence and watched as the defenders made final adjustments to their armor and their horses' tack. He smiled down at her and leaned back against the tack and saddlebags that they'd piled on top of each other. The film industry still does not come close to using remotely authentic-looking horse tack and, for the most part, never did. It was through Emma's unfaltering belief in his writing talent that he decided to change tack and concentrate more on his own screenplays. A good horse is a good horse, regardless of what sort of tack it's ridden in. Show More Sentences So a sheet is a rope, a tack is a turn into the wind and the boom is the spar along the bottom of the sail. A brooch to mark 15 or more years of service went to Mrs Hutchinson, with a tie tack for Lt Col Harold Washington. DirecTV is taking a different tack by aiming at its own roughly 10 million subscribers. A painter's tack rag or turpentine-dampened rag will help pick up much of this dirt. Though he had left his leather hauberk with his horse's tack and dunked his head in a water barrel, he still felt too uncomfortable to eat much. Meanwhile, the tack of the story has shifted slightly now our man has been found, with the blame game playing out across the world. After months of training, the team is set to win in bocce, football and tack and field. I trailed my brother as he unsaddled his horse and hung up the saddle and the tack in the stable. Other country crime includes farm break-ins, theft from building sites and the theft of valuable horse tack from stables. She dismounted in front of Shadowed Fury's stall, and took off his tack and began to groom the stallion into perfection. After the two had managed to set up the horse's tack, Allen stepped out of the stall, grinning broadly. Whilst waiting for the wagons, the boys organised sentries, checked their horses' tack, loaded their revolvers and relaxed. We push on but our mainsail trim needs that runner on the port tack and we drop away a little from the class leaders. It is also easy to just put yourself on a broad reach on the starboard tack any time you wish to use the spinnaker to go downwind. As it was, they were having to tack back and forth to maintain the southerly direction. A feeling suddenly exploded inside of him, and he rose, pulled on pants and a shirt, and went out to tack Shiloh. In an ideal world, we would not need any additional aids to facilitate the training of our horses other than good tack and a good surface. I just hope now that I can scrape enough tack together from other places to be able to run some lessons as planned. Near the top of the second beat, the three boats engaged in a fierce three-way tacking match near the port tack layline. His latest attempt to psyche out Harrison has seen the 32-year-old veteran of 75 fights take an opposite tack from his previous mind game. Show More Sentences The round things in this bag are called hard tack wafers, they don't taste very good, but they will keep you on your feet. The basic army rations were poor, mainly consisting of hard tack biscuits and black coffee. The officials and diplomats spoke anonymously because of the delicacy of the negotiations on what tack to take on Iran. Such a swing of opinion reflects the people's tendency to change tack depending on which way the wind is blowing. One year for Papa's birthday I commissioned a gold tie tack to be made for him that was crafted from a photo of Brandy's face. This is the second attempt to tack a DoS extension onto the Computer Misuse Act. When the boat was sailed on the starboard tack, seawater was siphoning into the boat. Her oar must have caught a little wave and rolled the boat straight over because they were going flat tack. After another half hour, the wind shifts, and the guys on deck need to tack the boat. We sight Northern Caye, our anchorage for the night, on the horizon and tack to starboard. Just when I was standing to leave, I decided to tack something on to our meaningful conversation. This tack has relied heavily on retraining Coasties, who were welding and cleaning up pollution, to pick up guns and inspect ships. Fringe two same-sized strips, then stack, tack them together and use as one piece. To use the guide, align the cut edge with your cut line and clamp or tack the guide to your workpiece. She untacked the tall stallion, putting his tack carefully aside, walking him outside, tying him to the well behind the barn. Tiffany smiled reminiscently as she pushed a brass tack into the photo that was by far her favorite. The grounds include a 250-year-old Spanish chestnut tree and a lofted coach house comprising seven loose boxes and a tack room. I have to admit that new tack of his took the wind out of my sails a bit. I thought I'd cover my bedroom in corkboard and then tack up notes for a groundbreaking, sweeping study cutting to the very essence of something-or-other. Watch other horses in case tack adjustments are needed or shoes are lost. Show More Sentences Horses throw shoes, eat food and destroy tack at an alarming rate. As a governing philosophy, it has been able to tack for decades from statism to laissez-faire, from big government to individual freedom, with only occasional discomfort. Anytime we have to put up the sail or tack or do any maneuvering, it requires all hands on deck. New materials will also be used for tack and horse equipment. When the lid is down, the pine becomes evident, although tack holes indicate that the writing surface was originally covered with oilcloth, hiding the lesser wood. If the tide was up, the limpid water would wash up against the sea defences, and the smaller sailing boats that infest the river would tack right up to the sea wall. She will tack toward narrow and safe decisions, forgoing grand, sweeping arguments when simple ones will suffice. An equestrian unit has been built on the land around the house and includes 12 loose boxes, an all-weather menage, tack room, feed room and a wash box. Modern and novice sailors are horrified about the lugsail being distorted by pressing against the mast on one tack but the effect is quite slight. In the summer of 1998, when the Bank was still getting used to independence, it changed tack abruptly from raising rates in the summer to cutting them in the autumn. He and fellow operators had argued that use of the dung catchers as an additional part of their horses' tack could compromise the welfare of the animals. Ever anxious to learn more, the members changed tack and headed for Carne to visit the Wind Mill farm which was in total contrast to the experience in the Heritage Park. When you tack on inflation, it will be spectacular double-digit growth. Edison's father Eucalyptus once remarked that if Lulu succumbed to her scurvy pox no one would even know but for the lessening of her complaints for hard tack and goat milk. Ah m'poor dears, that hard tack is to last you a whole week. It could be dried into a sort of hard tack that stood up to long voyages. I'm no expert when it comes to sailing, but I'm told a boat is adrift when it fails to tack to the wind, is overloaded on one side, or is untethered from its anchor. Paul has seen what happens when a candidate takes the tack Cruz appears to be taking with great relish. In the stables, hands fed and watered the horses, and groomed their white coats until they shone, and polished the tack until they see dull reflections in the leather. This guy's as sharp as a tack and I respect his opinions immensely. Show More Sentences The second yard has 12 loose boxes, the tack room and a lunging ring. It allows you to hose off the horse coated in mud, top off water buckets that are crusting with ice, and clean tack and other items without your hands turning blue. Along the same tack, have taken a straw poll in our street, in return my neighbours had a whinge at me about the level of non resident illegal parking. Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top. On the manager's office's left side was a grand, immense tack room, holding saddles, bridles, leathers, irons, and all assortments of tack to a large magnitude. France wants to lead the effort jointly with Britain, but the U.K., also gun-shy after the Iraq war, backs the NATO tack. Emma specialises in saddle and tack repairs having spent two years in saddlery college in Scotland, where she was head girl to international showjumper John McGeoch. I figured that at least the next time I had to clean the tack it would not take so long because there would not be nearly as much dirt and grime to wipe off. As we excavated this area we found tiny pieces of twisted gold wire, gold foil, and little gold tacks, presumably used to tack the foil onto a wooden object sitting on a post. Far from abandoning it when he changed tack, it is still going strong. There was indeed a ship headed in the direction of Dolphin which was still on her southeasterly tack while Indefatigable was now headed northwest. Bowles gave the order to bring the Indy on a northeasterly larboard tack. As we started the climb, I told the crew that they must helm the yacht very carefully on the opposite tack, as the rigging was only holding up one side of the mast. Just tack them to the back of the frame, or glue on with a hot glue gun. Added to the tremendous loading on an anchor line in high winds is the fact that in high winds boats do not tend to lie head to wind, but rather tack back and forth. If the tidal stream sets towards the right of the apparent wind, boats on the starboard tack will be freed and boats on the port tack will be headed. A young leukaemia sufferer has endured a further blow after thieves stole riding tack belonging to a family friend who had just bought a horse for her to enjoy riding. Horses are shod with iron shoes and fitted with salvaged horse tack. Only five minutes from the rivers of tourist tack around the station, but miles away in spirit, this tiny store perches on a corner near the top of the Canale di Cannaregio. As every good captain knows, a schooner that's sailing a bit too close to the wind often goes slower and runs the risk of being put about on the wrong tack. Show More Sentences Another tack of latter reviewers was to downplay the magnitude of the earlier acceptance and reliance on the Description. Show events such as Western pleasure use much flashier equipment, unlike the English traditions where clothing and tack is quiet and unobtrusive. The committee is asking Metro Council to tack new restrictions onto Metro licences, including... an expanded ghost car program. They'll break from the gate in full tack with jockeys riding catchweight in silks. The grub was plain, plentiful and I can still savour the suppers of Spillers hard tack biscuit, with cheese and a mug of hot sweet cocoa. The economic policies of Maggie Thatcher's elected government were a hard tack to swallow in some quarters, no-one would deny that. Even if the tie tack is a two-carat diamond, it's still tacky, says Leon Hall, spokesman for the New York-based Fashion Association. I was dressed in my black conservative suit, complete with tie tack and cuff links. Scovill Fasteners is an industry leader in the production of high quality snap fasteners and tack buttons. The complementary 1120-M-UR Ultra-Red is not only fast and tack free, but when cured also fluoresces bright red under low-intensity black light. Singles pay more for vacations, as travel packages typically tack on a single supplement charge to people traveling alone. You'll find everything for the horse and rider at the region's many tack shops, saddleries and riding centres. Wiping provides is made in the United States including lint-free tubes, tack cloths, surgical-huck towels, and several other products. Simply unroll the pre-molded product, fit it over the joist or ledger board, and tack it in place with a stapler. The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place. I thought that my refusing Barnard would alienate Botha, and decided that such a tack was too risky. If the wind shifts in the sailor's favor, called a lift, so much the better, then this tack is even more favorable. But if it shifts against the sailor's, called a header, then the opposite tack may become the more favorable course. Shazia had an advise for her party to change tack of doing agitational politics. If he is able to keep clear only by making an unseamanlike manoeuvre, then your tack was too close. Show More Sentences If we missed stays and failed to tack we would sag off to leeward, onto the sandbank. The tack material prevents water from getting through the edge of the patch and helps bond the patch to the surrounding pavement. In this procedure, waiting for any water to dry may require a second visit to place the tack coat. Each tack was only for 100 yards and now we had the right sail while they had reachers. Everyone expected him to start cagily but, then and there, Glenn decided on a completely different tack. The grounds include a garden shed, outdoor arena, wooden six stall barn offering a wash and tack room, hay loft and a half bath. One was for washing and shaving and the other was for your tea, hard tack and biscuits. Ariovistus now took the tack of claiming the Aedui had attacked him rather than vice versa. Single line systems work better with blocks in the reef tack and reef clew instead of standard grommets. I found a tack and pegged your picture to the bulletin board. Such a rhetorical tack may be understood in the context of what Steele has seen as the virtual nondebate in academia and the popular media over these issues. Use of a dimple plate for coating both sides prior to tack dry will allow the fabricator to optimize the tack dry cycle and avoid overdrying the material. We lost several hours having to tack into a foul wind just off the coast. The former coach house is next to the main property now with a tack room, garage, loosebox and office and behind are two more loose boxes and a four bay car port. It sounds like a fascinating read, published by Y Lolfa, but I think he might be on the wrong tack when he says that despite our old enmity we are ready to bury the hatchet. My guess is that cookhouses are going to be in short supply wherever it is they're sending us,' grumbled Bob, soaking some hard tack biscuit in his tea. The best strategy is to stay on the favorable tack as much as possible. It's now 14 days in the open boat, Salt sore eyes and dry parched throat, Hard tack rations now running so low, Our sail is adrift, we are too weak to row. We offered tastings of typical 1812 foods, like hard tack and suet, and then let them taste some of our current 'scratch cooking,' like beef stew. No doubt those in the boadroom will snort with indignance at the notion of changing tack off the back of one result, however raw it might feel on Tyneside. Show More Sentences Tucked in her bouquet was her maternal grandmother's sapphire cross pendant with her maternal grandfather's diamond tie tack mounted at the center. As the boat was swinging from a port to a starboard tack, one of the ladies stood up and turned directly into the oncoming boom. For a while the ship kept bucking and sidling, the sails filling, now on one tack, now on another, till the mast groaned aloud under the strain. Tack the lower two boards directly to your workbench to help hold the jig square. Tack is not defined, but presumably means saddle and bridle and normal accessories, such as girths, cinches and saddle pads. Tack pairs of ribbons on either side of the cover where the seat joins the back. It will be a TACK if you turn the bow of the boat through the eye of the wind, and it will be a JIBE if you turn the stern through the eye of the wind. Tack was her ordination sponsor and officiated at Smith's wedding. Boston Warehouse recently introduced Cup O' Joe Kitchen accessories, including a Cookie Jar, Tick Tack Timer and Napkin Ring Set. Tack the work pieces with one spot and check for proper relative position of pieces. Sometimes the pieces can be separated and respotted if necessary. The Father, Trainmaster, Rough Lock Bill and the Bully were played by Sung Tack Chung, who also convincingly altered his appearance, voice and presentation for each character. Examples from Classical Literature In a few days it will recarpet the earth and tack down the green breadths with brass-headed dandelions. I may be able to string together a number of texts, and tack on an application, but that is mere mechanical work. For a sharpener wrap a piece of fine emery paper about a square stick and tack it down. John Paul himself taught me to tack and wear ship, and MacMuir to stow a headsail. Make a valance of the same material, gathering the cretonne so as to form a heading at the top, and tack it around the box. The English stood off on the port tack to the west or west-northwest, and next day returned to the fight. Still another way out of the difficulty is to get just the length of lincrusta and tack it on neatly. Archie gained on every tack and come about for the run a full minute afore us. There are times when you tack and wear, and boxhaul ship every fifteen minutes. Bind this down tightly with a piece of burlap and tack the edges to the rails. The Phantom had to come about, and get on the right tack, for Guilford was too careful to gybe in that wind. Both of us close-hauled, but we being starboard tack have the right of way. And as we laid out on the next tack to wind-ward, I bent a piece of line to a small grappling hook I had seen lying in the bail-hole. But he luffed the boat less delicately, spilling the wind shamelessly from the sail so as to prolong the tack to the north shore. It was not possible to adapt the tack used to connect horses to wagons for use in the new horseless carriages. For two days and one night we had it, tack and tack, with her. He ran aft, drew in the sheet, and filled on the long tack toward the Contra Costa Hills. Leeway on the starboard tack is the same as westerly Variation. She will do this until she manages to get around on one tack or the other. He fell over a baby carriage, and I gained a tack 'fore he got up. Show More Sentences With jibs and fore-and-aft sails, the tack confines them amidships. Five days had passed, and she and Sheldon were standing on the veranda watching the Martha, close-hauled on the wind, laying a tack off shore. She came back on the opposite tack with the speed of a racehorse. The company will tack on another 8,000 square meters of fairgrounds in 2007, says Amigo. He turned and stood on another tack to sail round the skerry. Meanwhile the schooner gradually fell off and filled again upon another tack, sailed swiftly for a minute or so, and brought up once more dead in the wind's eye. I went to my work as usual at ten o'clock, but the door was shut and locked, with a little square of cardboard hammered on to the middle of the panel with a tack. It was as if he had hit his fingers with a tack hammer at home. Tack a piece of asbestos on end of ironing board for iron stand. Find more words! 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What is the opposite of tack? Words that rhyme with tack What is the past tense of tack? What is the plural of tack? What is the adverb for tack? What is the adjective for tack? What is the noun for tack? Translations for tack Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words TACITUS Tacitus taciturnly taciturnity taciturn Tacit understanding Tack tacked tacker tackier tackiest tackily 4-letter Words Starting With t ta tac