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Tack may refer to:
People
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Implements, and creative or constructive tasks and materials
Tack (sewing) (also baste or pin ), quick, temporary stitching intended to be removed
Blu Tack , a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive used for attaching paper items to walls
Horse tack , equipment used to allow riding or driving of horses and some other
riding animals
Thumbtack or drawing pin , a short
nail or pin easily placed and removed by hand
Shoe tack , a type of cut nail, used in upholstery, shoe making and saddle manufacture
Tack weld , a specific short and often temporary type of
weld
Upholstery tack or
furniture tack , a type of short
nail more
robust and resistant than the
drawing pin .
Sailing
A tack as a part of the
tacking maneuver; in which a sailing boat turns its bow through the wind
Tack (sailing) , the lower corner of a sail's leading edge
Tack (square sail) , a type of rigging unique to square sails
Other uses
Hardtack , a hard cracker or biscuit used for food on sea voyages and by soldiers during the American Civil War.
Scottish lease, as held by a
tacksman
Tack, another name for
stickiness in chemistry
The Tack, a parliamentary maneuver supported by
Tackers in 1704
The
grand tack hypothesis on the origin of the structure of the Solar System
TACK , a proposed archaeal supergroup, presumably a sister taxon of hypothetical Asgard taxon within the proteoarchaeota kingdom
TACK, a proposed network security standard co-created by
Moxie Marlinspike
Any of the four symbols
See also
Topics referred to by the same term