Definition of Tacks

1. Noun. (plural of tack) ¹

2. Verb. (third-person singular of tack) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Tacks

1. tack [v] - See also: tack

Lexicographical Neighbors of Tacks

tackiness
tackinesses
tacking
tacking up
tackings
tackle fall
tackle twill
tackled
tackler
tacklers
tackles
tackless
tackling
tacklings
tacks (current term)
tacks up
tacksman
tacksmen
tacky
tacnode
tacnodes
taco salad
taco sauce
tacolike
taconic
taconite
taconites
tacops

Literary usage of Tacks

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts by Willard Cope Brinton (1914)
"tacks with rough steel shanks cannot be pushed far into a map if the tacks are ... Cloth heads on the map tacks make it possible to have tacks in distinct ..."

2. Graphic Methods for Presenting Facts by Willard Cope Brinton (1914)
"tacks with rough steel shanks cannot be pushed far into a map if the tacks are ... Cloth heads on the map tacks make it possible to have tacks in distinct ..."

3. Commercial Nomenclature by John K. Chandler, John C. Redman, Virginia H. Wood, Caroline S. Larner (1897)
"tacks, Copper. tacks, Covered. tacks, Crimping. tacks. Curtain. tacks ... tacks, Phosphor-Bronze. tacks, Porcelain Head. tacks, Rubber Head. ..."

4. An Abridgement of the Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland: From the Reign of by William Alexander (1841)
"AND Because Reason and Equity craveth, That recompence should be made unto the tacks-men, and other persons whatsoever, who .símil be by the sentence of the ..."

5. The New England Gazetteer: Containing Descriptions of the States, Counties by John Hayward (1857)
"Another important manufacture took ita rise early here, — the manufacture of cut tacks and brads. The making of tacks by hand commenced very early. ..."

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