l or, for 2–4, tey-kuh
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noun, verb, -led, -ling.| 1. | equipment, apparatus, or gear, esp. for fishing: fishing tackle. |
| 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.
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| 7. | (formerly) tack 1 (def. 8). |
| 8. | to undertake to handle, master, solve, etc.: to tackle a difficult problem. |
| 9. | to deal with (a person) on some problem, issue, etc. |
| 10. | to harness (a horse). |
| 11. | Football. to seize, stop, or throw down (a ball-carrier). |
| 12. | 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. |
| 13. | to seize suddenly, esp. in order to stop. |
| 14. | Football. to tackle an opponent having the ball. |