Què és tackless?
Què és tackless?
- A short, light nail with a sharp point and a flat head.
- Nautical A rope for holding down the weather clew of a course. A rope for hauling the outer lower corner of a studdingsail to the boom. The part of a sail, such as the weather clew of a course, to which this rope is fastened. The lower forward corner of a fore-and-aft sail.
- Nautical The position of a vessel relative to the trim of its sails. The act of changing from one position or direction to another. The distance or leg sailed between changes of position or direction.
- An approach to accomplishing a goal or a method of dealing with a problem.
- A large, loose stitch made as a temporary binding or as a marker.
- Stickiness, as that of a newly painted surface.
- To fasten or attach with a tack or tacks: tacked the carpet down.
- To fasten or mark (cloth or a seam, for example) with a loose basting stitch.
- To put together loosely and arbitrarily: tacked some stories together in an attempt to write a novel.
- To add as an extra item; append: tacked two dollars onto the bill.
- Nautical To bring (a vessel) into the wind in order to change course or direction.
- Nautical To change the direction of a sailing vessel, especially by turning the bow into and past the direction of the wind: Stand by to tack. To sail a zigzag course upwind by repeatedly executing such a maneuver. To change tack: The ship tacked to starboard.
- To change one's course of action.