Definitions for tackling

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tackling tack·ling

Spelling: [tak-ling]

IPA: /ˈtæk lɪŋ/

Tackling is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 264 anagrams from letters in tackling (acgiklnt).

Definitions for tackling

noun

1. equipment; tackle.
2. equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing:
3. 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.
4. any system of leverage using several pulleys.
5. Nautical. the gear and running rigging for handling a ship or performing some task on a ship.
6. an act of tackling, as in football; a seizing, grasping, or bringing down.
7. Football. either of the linemen stationed between a guard and an end. the position played by this lineman.
8. (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 tackling

late Middle English word dating back to 1375-1425; See origin at tackle, -ing¹

Examples for tackling

Bob became increasingly hard to work with, so Terry split from the partnership mid-assignment for Vibe, tackling it solo.

Somehow it struck him that the law was hardly equal to tackling "that kind."

It is an episode that is so on-the-nose in its tackling of pro-choice debates that you can practically see the freckles.

He seems undaunted at tackling a number previously vocalized by the likes of Nat King Cole, Rosemary Clooney, and Sammy Davis Jr.

If Marvin isn't satisfied with your tackling, it's because you don't do it right.

It was easy for the media to pounce when he admitted to lacking a comprehensive strategy for tackling ISIS.

And he rags me every day about my tackling and—and I don't think it's fair!

There was no difficulty at all in coming to the subject at once, and tackling it.

He was tackling a delicate job—like juggling a car-load of dynamite.

In tackling this issue, Watson is, whether she knows it or not, also implicitly taking on a broader issue.