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tack room

American  

noun

  1. a room in or near a stable for storing saddles, harnesses, and other tack.


tack room British  

noun

  1. a room in a stable building in which bridles, saddles, etc are kept

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of tack room

First recorded in 1955–60

Example Sentences

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It is made up of a main residence, a guesthouse, pool house, and a five-stall barn complete with a tack room and a private equestrian arena.

From MarketWatch • Jun. 2, 2026

He took up living in a tack room.

From Seattle Times • May 4, 2022

It was in Rockfield's old horse tack room where the final piece of a six-minute rock operetta was lovingly mastered by Queen in the summer of 1975.

From BBC • Jul. 17, 2020

The property includes a large, spring-fed pond, a 12-stall stable with tack room, nine paddocks and a farm office.

From Washington Post • Feb. 25, 2020

She had once come into his barn and discovered jockey Farrell Jones lying on a cot in the cold, drafty tack room, desperately ill with an infection.

From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand

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