Crossword clues for tacking
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tacking \Tack"ing\, n. (Law)
A union of securities given at different times, all of which
must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can
interpose his claim.
--Bouvier.
Note: The doctrine of tacking is not recognized in American
law.
--Kent.
Tack \Tack\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tacked; p. pr. & vb. n. Tacking.] [Cf. OD. tacken to touch, take, seize, fix, akin to E. take. See Tack a small nail.]
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To fasten or attach. ``In hopes of getting some commendam tacked to their sees.''
--Swift.And tacks the center to the sphere.
--Herbert. Especially, to attach or secure in a slight or hasty manner, as by stitching or nailing; as, to tack together the sheets of a book; to tack one piece of cloth to another; to tack on a board or shingle; to tack one piece of metal to another by drops of solder.
In parliamentary usage, to add (a supplement) to a bill; to append; -- often with on or to; as, to tack on a non-germane appropriation to a bill.
--Macaulay.-
(Naut.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course.
Note: In tacking, a vessel is brought to point at first directly to windward, and then so that the wind will blow against the other side.
Wiktionary
n. 1 loose temporary stitches in dressmaking etc 2 (context nautical English) the act of changing tack 3 (context legal English) A union of security given at different times, all of which must be redeemed before an intermediate purchaser can interpose a claim. vb. (present participle of tack English)
WordNet
Wikipedia
Tacking or coming about is a sailing maneuver by which a sailing vessel (which is sailing approximately into the wind) turns its bow into the wind through the 'no-go zone' so that the direction from which the wind blows changes from one side to the other.
For example, if a vessel is sailing on a starboard tack with the wind blowing from the right side and tacks, it will end up on a port tack with the wind blowing from the left side. See the image at the right; the red arrow indicates the wind direction. This maneuver is frequently used when the desired direction is (nearly) directly into the wind.
In practice, the sails are set at an angle of 45° to the wind for conventional sailships and the tacking course is kept as short as possible before a new tack is set in. Rotor ships can tack much closer to the wind, 20 to 30°.
The opposite maneuver, i.e. turning the stern through the wind, is called jibing (or wearing on square-rigged ships). Tacking more than 180° to avoid a jibe (mostly in harsh conditions) is sometimes referred to as a 'chicken jibe'.
Tacking is a legal concept arising under the common law relating to competing priorities between two or more security interests arising over the same asset. The concept is best illustrated by way of example.
- Bank A lends a first advance to the borrower, which is secured by a mortgage over the borrower's property. The mortgage is expressed to secure this advance and any future advances.
- Bank B subsequently lends more money to the borrower and takes a second ranking mortgage over the same property.
- Bank A then subsequently lends a second advance to the borrower, relying on its original mortgage.
Bank A will always have a first priority claim against the property for the full amount of its first advance. But it will be able to claim against the property in priority to Bank B with respect to its second advance only if it is permitted to tack the second advance to the mortgage that was taken at the time the first advance was made. If Bank A is not permitted to tack the second advance, then Bank B's claim in respect of the sums that it lent will have priority over Bank A's claims with respect to the second advance.
In American jurisprudence, Black's Law Dictionary defines tacking in slightly narrower terms:
Separately, in the definition of tabula in naufragio, Black's comments:
Tacking may refer to: Combining occupancy to gain adverse possession is called tacking.
- Tacking (sailing) or coming about, a sailing maneuver
- Tacking (law), a technical legal concept relating to competing priorities between interests arising over the same asset
- Tacking Into the Wind, an episode from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Tacking Point Lighthouse, a lighthouse near Port Macquarie, Australia
Usage examples of "tacking".
The men would have been issued with cutlasses, tomahawks, pikes or pistols, depending what was marked against their name in the general quarter, watch and station bill, which listed the name of every man in the ship and his task for every evolution, whether anchoring, tacking, wearing, furling, reefing or fighting the enemy.
They were making their laborious way southward from Arsudun harbor, tacking into a stiff breeze.
Infantry tacking behind it scattered frantically as the flaming skins burst on the ice, sending burning oil in all directions.
We assumed you had come from here at the usual best-time-daylight sailing and tacking procedure, and your child made no secret of the time you had spent en route.
So, within ten minutes at the most of those irons being unlocked, I want this ship tacking down the Gullet under topsails.
He then drew a diagram of them tacking together, and put a question mark beside that, too.
Leopards had no stations for tacking ship: they gathered round their Captain and drank deep from the scuttle-butt as the Java swung up into the wind.
They spent many weary days tacking back and forth, steering clear of the treacherous shoals that guarded Agulhas and clawing their way into their eas tings At last they were able to double the Cape and turn northwards along that rugged and inhospitable coast.
Mowett, and explained the nature of leeway, the loss of windward distance in wearing, the impossibility of tacking in a very great wind, the inevitability of leeward drift in the case of being embayed with a full gale blowing dead on short, and the impervious horror of this situation.
A thousand Ouster angels, some of them armed with low-yield energy weapons or recoilless rifles, opened forcefield wings and flew toward the distant Pax ships in long, tacking ellipses along the crest of the solar wind.
Back and forth the warring vessels glided, rising and falling in sudden tackings, fireballs cutting bright red paths across the blue, metal shards and arrows whistling through their deadly trajectories.