tack room

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noun

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

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Origin of tack room

First recorded in 1955–60

Words nearby tack room

tackie, tackies, tackle, tackling, tack rag, tack room, tacksman, tack-weld, tack welding, tacky, Tacloban

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How to use tack room in a sentence

Why couldn't you tell him a hard-luck story and get to sleep in his tack-room nights?
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Old Man Curry, owner of race horses, looked out of his tack-room door at a streaming sky and gave thanks for the rain.
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I knows him well 'nough to wish yo' hadn't 'vited him to do his floppin' in yo' tack-room!
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After an interval they returned to the tack-room, the Bald-faced Kid shaking his head commiseratingly.
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Old Man Curry combed his beard reflectively and gazed through the tack-room door into the dusk of the summer evening.
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British Dictionary definitions for tack room

tack room

noun

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

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