tackling
noun
equipment; tackle.
tacklings
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pluralof tackling.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Betwixt the hollow hanging of a hill, And crooked bending of a craggy rock, The sails wrapt up, the mast and tacklings down, She lies so close that none can find her out.
From Tamburlaine the Great — Part 2 by Christopher Marlowe
"Here he lingered and cast off his tacklings and gave me his last kiss."
From Bulfinch's Mythology: the Age of Fable by Thomas Bulfinch
Then before school was out, he took off all the tacklings, and scattered the logs along the shore, so that they had the appearance of having drifted there in the night.
From Rod of the Lone Patrol by H. A. (Hiram Alfred) Cody
She was white to the lips, but the lips were firmly set; whereas Mr. Goodfellow's jaw hung as though loosed from its tacklings.
From Poison Island by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
"Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not well strengthen their mast, they could not spread the sail; then is the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame take the prey."
From The Ship of Stars by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch
