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uments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons. "She to her tackle fell." Hudibras.

ade of ropes tacked together. My man shall be with thee, And bring thee cords made like a tackled stair. Shak.

To supply with tackle. [Obs.] Skelton.

A tackle or purchase used to raise the flukes of the anchor up to the gunwale. The block used is called the fish-block.

A tackle used in hoisting and lowering the topmast.

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

A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line, hook, and bait, with or without a rod. Give me mine angle: we 'll to the river there. Shak. A fisher next his trembling angle bears. Pope. Acute angle, one less than a right angle, or less than 90º. -- Adjacent or Contiguous angles, such as have one leg commo…

f motion, or to exert increased force; -- used especially in the rigging of ships, and in tackles.

nd double change of bravery. Shak. Like a stately ship . . . With all her bravery on, and tackle trim. Milton.

A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended of a hook block in the bight of the running part.

A small line made of spun yarn, to bind or worm cables, seize tackles, etc.

A strong tackle used to draw an anchor up to the cathead of a ship. Totten.

A particular hitch or turn in the bight of a rope, into which a tackle may be hooked.

nd rodents, used for holding food. -- Cheeks of a block, the two sides of the shell of a tackle block. -- Cheeks of a mast, the projection on each side of a mast, upon which the trestletrees rest. -- Cheek tooth (Anat.), a hinder or molar tooth. -- Butment cheek. See under Butment.

Hoisted as high as the tackle will admit; brought close together, as the two blocks of a tackle in hoisting.

Any device for gripping an object, as at the end of a chain or tackle.

ut.), to turn it the contrary way, so as to slacken the rope about it. -- To come up the tackle fall (Naut.), to slacken the tackle gently. Totten. -- To come up to, to rise to; to equal. -- To come up with, to overtake or reach by pursuit. -- To come upon. (a) To befall. (b) To attack or invade. (c) To have a clai…

of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. Of Derrick.

A form of tackle for loading a log sideways on a sled, skidway, etc.

Curved arms of timber or iron, projecting over a ship's side of stern, having tackle to raise or lower a boat, swing it in on deck, rig it out for lowering, etc.; -- called also boat davits. Totten.