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vb. (present participle of tack up English)
Usage examples of "tacking up".
He looked out through the breezeway to where Rulf and his sons were tacking up the horses.
He's used to a British frigate tacking up and down the coast - this place has been under blockade for months.
He could see fleets of junks and sampans tacking up the Lan Tai channel heading for Hong Kong&rsquo.
He could see fleets of junks and sampans tacking up the Lan Tai channel heading for Hong Kong’.
He had finished tacking up his horse and worked on Del's white gelding, smearing black paint around his eyes and stringing the Vashni browband across his face.
She saw that the little boat which she had noticed tacking up the creek while she hesitated upon the terrace had run its nose into the shore.
Andrew, that the cog and her two prisoners, after a weary tacking up the Girondo and the Garonne, dropped anchor at last in front of the noble city of Bordeaux.
Heris noticed pale bare patches on the wall where the ugliest pottery decorations had hung, and passed one hotel employee hastily tacking up a framed picture of flowers over another.
The agricultural agent Yerewain Noor, looking deeply grieved, making endless fluttery apologies, had posted a notice of labor levy in the town, tacking up the sign on the door of this same municipal hall where Aximaan Threysz sat now, and one Starday morning every able-bodied worker in Prestimion Vale had come to her plantation to carry out the torching.
In fact, I'm seriously considering tacking up a sign outside that offers free sauna sessions.
At his back, Coyote was tacking up a large-scale map of the Kola Peninsula.