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Definition of Tacker
1. Noun. A worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding).
2. Noun. A sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches.
3. Noun. A hand-held machine for driving staples home.
Definition of Tacker
1. n. One who tacks.
Definition of Tacker
1. Noun. A person who, or device that tacks. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Tacker
1. one that tacks [n -S] - See also: tacks
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tacker
Literary usage of Tacker
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Church in the Eighteenth Century by Charles John Abbey, John Henry Overton (1878)
"A tacker, ' writes a pamphleteer in 1705, 'is the motley spawn of the ... A tacker
is one whose zeal for the Church shakes hands with the Devil; ..."
2. Descriptions of Occupations by United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, United States Employment Service (1918)
"BAB tacker BUILT Description: The bar tacker operates a special automatic machine,
which sews a short row of stitches, similar to buttonhole stitches, ..."
3. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Rag tacker (popular), a dressmaker. Rag, the (London), explained by quotation.
There is not a single music-hall, from the vast " Alhambra" in Leicester ..."
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