tack-weld

[ tak-weld ]

/ ˈtækˌwɛld /

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verb (used with object)

to join (pieces of metal) with a number of small welds spaced some distance apart.

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Pulling oil from the tar sands is costly, even more so when you tack transportation costs on top.
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Around 3am, my spindly legs are beginning to ache from balancing on deck, as we heel with each tack.
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“I can build a custom motorcycle from scratch, can weld, and worked as a lube guy at a GM dealership,” Dustykatt says.
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The stratagem worked, because the ships went about from one tack to the other without being seen by the Dutch.
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Whereas Lessard had acted the martinet with MacRae, he took another tack and became the very essence of affability toward me.
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The wind being unfavourable, we were obliged, during the night, to tack in the neighbourhood of Dover.
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It was evidently useless to try to get anything more out of the child on that tack.
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Weld is a totally distinct word from woad, but most dictionaries confound them.
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