ALL meanings of tackling
tack·ling
T t - noun tackling equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle. 1
- noun tackling 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. 1
- noun tackling any system of leverage using several pulleys. 1
- noun tackling Nautical. the gear and running rigging for handling a ship or performing some task on a ship. 1
- noun tackling an act of tackling, as in football; a seizing, grasping, or bringing down. 1
- noun tackling Football. either of the linemen stationed between a guard and an end. the position played by this lineman. 1
- noun tackling (formerly) tack1 (def 8). 1
- verb with object tackling to undertake to handle, master, solve, etc.: to tackle a difficult problem. 1
- verb with object tackling to deal with (a person) on some problem, issue, etc. 1
- verb with object tackling to harness (a horse). 1
- verb with object tackling Football. to seize, stop, or throw down (a ball-carrier). 1
- verb with object tackling 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. 1
- verb with object tackling to seize suddenly, especially in order to stop. 1
- verb without object tackling Football. to tackle an opponent having the ball. 1