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Definition of Tacklers
1. tackler [n] - See also: tackler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tacklers
Literary usage of Tacklers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Cotton Spinning and Manufacturing in the United States of America by Thomas William Uttley (1905)
"... six machines — System of keeping skilled hands to skilled work — Drawing-in
compared with twisting — Weaving on Northrop looms— Why tacklers are on time ..."
2. The American Cotton Industry: A Study of Work and Workers by Thomas M. Young (1902)
"The number of loom-fixers or tacklers employed here, as at other New England
mills, was surprisingly small. Seven hundred and fifty of the ordinary plain ..."
3. The American Cotton Industry: A Study of Work and Workers by Thomas Young, M. (1903)
"The number of loom-fixers or tacklers employed here, as at other New England
mills, was surprisingly small. Seven hundred and fifty of the ordinary plain ..."
4. American Football by Charles Dudley Daly (1921)
"Reversing the field consists in making the tacklers run full speed toward the
runner, who watches his opportunity and by a sharp change of direction drives ..."
5. Outing (1893)
"Last year's tacklers, Winter and Wallace, ... Camp was a hard line-breaker last
year, and it will take good tacklers to keep him down this year. ..."
6. Football Days: Memories of the Game and of the Men Behind the Ball by William Hanford Edwards (1916)
"As Heston broke away from the last tacklers, I backed suddenly into the outstretched
arms of the Ohio State fullback, who, it appears, had been backing up ..."
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