- equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.
- a mechanism or apparatus, as a rope and block or a combination of ropes and blocks, for hoisting, lowering, and shifting objects or materials; purchase.
- any system of leverage using several pulleys.
- the gear and running rigging for handling a ship or performing some task on a ship.
- an act of tackling, as in football; a seizing, grasping, or bringing down.
- Football.
- either of the linemen stationed between a guard and an end.
- the position played by this lineman.
- (formerly) tack1 (def. 8).
- to undertake to handle, master, solve, etc.: to tackle a difficult problem.
- to deal with (a person) on some problem, issue, etc.
- to harness (a horse).
- to seize, stop, or throw down (a ball-carrier).
- to block or impede the movement or progress of (an opponent having the ball) with the result of depriving the opponent of the ball.
- to seize suddenly, especially in order to stop.
- to tackle an opponent having the ball.
- any mechanical system for lifting or pulling, esp an arrangement of ropes and pulleys designed to lift heavy weights
- the equipment required for a particular occupation, etc
- the halyards and other running rigging aboard a vessel
- a man's genitals
- a physical challenge to an opponent, as to prevent his progress with the ball
- a defensive lineman
- to undertake (a task, problem, etc)
- to confront (a person, esp an opponent) with a difficult proposition
- (esp in football games) to challenge (an opponent) with a tackle
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