Definitions for the word "Tackle" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
Apparatus for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and pulley blocks; sometimes, the rope and attachments, as distinct from the block.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
Any instruments of action; an apparatus by which an object is moved or operated; gear; as, fishing tackle, hunting tackle; formerly, specifically, weapons.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
The rigging and apparatus of a ship; also, any purchase where more than one block is used.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
To supply with tackle.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple; as, a wrestler tackles his antagonist; a dog tackles the game.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
To begin to deal with; as, to tackle the problem.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
1 equipment for a task or sport. 2 mechanism, esp. Of ropes, pulley-blocks, hooks, etc., for lifting weights, managing sails, etc. 3 windlass with its ropes and hooks. 4 act of tackling in football etc. v. (-ling) 1 try to deal with (a problem or difficulty). 2 grapple with (an opponent). 3 confront (a person) in discussion or argument. 4 intercept or stop (a player running with the ball). tackler n. [low german]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
9. slang
clothes.—_Sea._ Also to encounter a person in argument.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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