tacket

[ tak-it ]
nounBritish Dialect.

  1. a nail or tack, especially a hobnail.

Origin of tacket

1
First recorded in 1275–1325, tacket is from the Middle English word taket.See tack1, -et

Other words from tacket

  • tack·et·ed, adjective

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How to use tacket in a sentence

  • For one thing, he could see no marks of the tackets the Scottish peasant uses.

    Johnstone of the Border | Harold Bindloss

British Dictionary definitions for tacket

tacket

/ (ˈtækɪt) /

noun

  1. Scot and Northern English dialect a nail, esp a hobnail

Origin of tacket

1
C14: from tack 1

Derived forms of tacket

  • tackety, adjective

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