Tack

A tough test for even the strongest climber, it was new to the Tour de France this year, but its debut will be remembered for the wrong reasons after one of those spectators scattered carpet tacks on the road and induced around 30 punctures among the group of riders including Bradley Wiggins, the Tour's overall leader, and his chief rivals.

So stoutly held to tack by those near North-wales men;

Maud Gonne’s letter about taking them off O’Connell street at night: disgrace to our Irish capital. Griffith’s paper is on the same tack now: an army rotten with venereal disease: overseas or halfseasover empire.

I thought that my refusing Barnard would alienate Botha, and decided that such a tack was too risky.

When even cautious German politicians are questioning Nato’s ‘war-mongering’ actions, it’s clear that a new tack is required

The laminate adhesive has very aggressive tack and is hard to move once in place.

Letterpress and offset gloss varnishes normally have viscosities varying from 50 to 250 poises; they must stain the paper as little as possible, have insufficient tack to cause plucking, […]

Near-synonyms: biscuit, bread

But if a woman's got nothing but her fair fame to feed on, why, it's thin tack, and a donkey would die of it!

Some tacks had been made to money bills in King Charles's time.

pay all taxes and subscribe tacks

He should find[…]that there was tack in it, that it was solid silver, or silver that had strength in it.

to tack (something) onto (something)

In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would be regarded as "errors" by prescriptivist language scholars.

a musty tack

For souvenirs – mostly outright tack and ethnicky textiles – try your bargaining skills at the shops and stalls on Binjiang Luand Zhengyang Jie, or the nightly street market spreading for about a block either side of Shanhu Bridge along Zhongshan Lu.

In the Breadalbane papers, for example, there is a "tack" which was given by Sir John Campbell of Glenurchy to his "weil belouit" servant John M'Conoquhy V'Gregour, in the year 1530.