Definitions for tackle

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tackle tack·le

Spelling: [tak-uh l or for 2–4, tey-k Tackle is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 120 anagrams from letters in tackle (aceklt).

Definitions for tackle

noun

1. equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing:
2. a mechanism or apparatus, as a rope and block or a combination of ropes and blocks, for hoisting, lowering, and shifting objects or materials; purchase.
3. any system of leverage using several pulleys.
4. Nautical. the gear and running rigging for handling a ship or performing some task on a ship.
5. an act of tackling, as in football; a seizing, grasping, or bringing down.
6. Football. either of the linemen stationed between a guard and an end. the position played by this lineman.
7. (formerly) tack1 (def 8).

verb (used with object)

1. to undertake to handle, master, solve, etc.:
2. to deal with (a person) on some problem, issue, etc.
3. to harness (a horse).
4. Football. to seize, stop, or throw down (a ball-carrier).
5. Soccer, Field Hockey. to block or impede the movement or progress of (an opponent having the ball) with the result of depriving the opponent of the ball.
6. to seize suddenly, especially in order to stop.

verb (used without object)

1. Football. to tackle an opponent having the ball.

Origin of tackle

1200-50; Middle English takel gear, apparatus Middle Low German; akin to take

Examples for tackle

India has little or nothing to contribute to American efforts to tackle the crises in Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, and Iraq.

Mr. Bud proposed that they should go down to the saloon and "tackle the soup."

It was inspiration enough to help us tackle the usually dreaded summer to fall wardrobe transition.

Directed by Michael Dowse, What If, in select theaters Aug. 8, sees Radcliffe tackle his most “adult” role to date: romcom lead.

They were quick enough in putting these to; yet how they managed it with their tackle, I know not.

But there was still a paper to get out in Washington, and I went there late in the afternoon to tackle the dismal job.

Well, you wait and see how I'll tackle these this very evening.

Then I made up my mind I'd tackle you and keep at it till I got to know you.

What were the biggest hurdles for you on The Sopranos as far as storylines to tackle, or storylines to wrap up?

You wouldn't much like to tackle him in argeyment, I'm thinking, sir.'