Meaning & use
tacking
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Fastening something lightly with small nails or pins, or, in sailing, changing a ship's direction by turning its bow through the wind.
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She tacked the fabric in place before sewing the final seam.
The sailors kept tacking back and forth to make headway against the wind.
A note on using this word
The sailing sense is the source of the idiom "change tack," meaning to adopt a different approach.
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