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A covering or protection, as a canvas, for a stack.

Hay, gray, or the like, in stacks; things stacked. [R.]

A stockade. [Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

from Stack. Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack. -- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.

A staging for supporting a stack of hay or grain; a rickstand.

A yard or inclosure for stacks of hay or grain. A. Smith.

A kind of backgammon played both with men and pegs; tricktrack. A game at ticktack with words. Milton.

A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.

To remove, or take away, from a stack; to remove, as something constituting a stack.

To separate, as what is tacked; to disjoin; to release. being untacked from honest cares. Barrow.

To unbitch; to unharness. [Colloq.] Tusser.

oard. Naut.: To fall aboard of, to strike a ship's side; to fall foul of. -- To haul the tacks aboard, to set the courses. -- To keep the land aboard, to hug the shore. -- To lay (a ship) aboard, to place one's own ship close alongside of (a ship) for fighting.

To a reserved position; half round; in the opposite direction; on the opposite tack; as, to face about; to turn one's self about. To bring about, to cause to take place; to accomplish. -- To come about, to occur; to take place. See under Come. -- To go about, To set about, to undertake; to arrange; to prepare. "Shall…

An onset, attack, or fit of disease. The first access looked like an apoplexy. Burnet.

The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack. [Obs.]

A furious onset or attack. [Obs.] Spenser.

it the first act of hostility or offense; to begin a quarrel or controversy; to make an attack; -- with on.

The first attack, or act of hostility; the first act of injury, or first act leading to a war or a controversy; unprovoked attack; assault; as, a war of aggression. "Aggressions of power." Hallam

Tending or disposed to aggress; characterized by aggression; making assaults; unjustly attacking; as, an aggressive policy, war, person, nation. -- Ag*gres"sive*ly, adv. -- Ag*gres"sive*ness, n.

The person who first attacks or makes an aggression; he who begins hostility or a quarrel; an assailant. The insolence of the aggressor is usually proportioned to the tameness of the sufferer. Ames.