"tack up" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: tacks up [present, singular, third-person], tacking up [participle, present], tacked up [participle, past], tacked up [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|*}} tack up (third-person singular simple present tacks up, present participle tacking up, simple past and past participle tacked up)
  1. To prepare a horse for riding by equipping it with tack (harness, reins, saddle etc.) Categories (lifeform): Horse tack Derived forms: tack-up [noun] Related terms (apply tack to a horse): gear up, suit up Translations (prepare a horse): rakentaa (Ingrian)
    Sense id: en-tack_up-en-verb-en:apply_tack_to_horse Disambiguation of Horse tack: 58 42 Disambiguation of 'apply tack to a horse': 75 25 Disambiguation of 'prepare a horse': 95 5
  2. To attach in a temporary fashion (with or as if with tacks or pins), as for example to fix pieces of fabric into position in preparation for sewing their seams, or to hang dropcloths as masking before painting. Related terms (attach temporarily): tack down, tack weld
    Sense id: en-tack_up-en-verb-en:attach_temporarily__transitively Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English phrasal verbs with particle (up), English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 70 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 36 64 Disambiguation of English phrasal verbs with particle (up): 34 66 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 31 69 Disambiguation of 'attach temporarily': 9 91

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for tack up meaning in English (3.2kB)

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