Manila paper, after wetting, may betacked upon a stretcher.
Paper must be stretched or thumb-tacked perfectly smooth; ink-stone, dishes and brushes must be clean.
To prevent it from catching fire it was covered with a thick plastering of mud, and then to keep the mud from cracking and flaking off we procured a piece of tin and tacked it over the log.
These were all covered with denim before being tacked to the chair and then they were bound with tape at intervals to produce the padded effect.
This done, the boat was turned deck downward and the canvas was tacked to the keelson.
For a plumb line we tacked a cord to the center of the tripod head, and attached a good-sized sinker to its lower end.
The canvas was then applied in the manner described before, but was tacked to the upper edge of the gunwale instead of the outer side, and the tacks were covered by a half-round molding which extended around the entire boat.
After tacking the canvas along the gunwales on the outside, it was trimmed off, leaving sufficient margin to be brought over the gunwales and tacked inside.
The two bands may now be tacked to the two ends of the frame with opposite pencil lines over the edges of the corner sticks, as in Fig.
Two triangular pieces were cut out for the decks, and these were lapped over the outer canvas and tacked to the gunwales.
However, it is worthy of note that in this hymn each of the other gods mentioned receives a line for himself, and that Ramman is the only one who is tacked on to another deity.
The finest prayer has almost invariably tacked on to it an incantation, or constitutes in itself an incantation.
Knowing the unscientific build of the Hellenic boats, and how easily they are overturned when heavily laden, I tackedround suddenly to the opposite side, and putting on full speed, capsized it without the slightest difficulty.
If I made anything by manoeuvring, it was only when we tacked a mile north of the Head.
I came down from the harbor, andtacked between those two wharves," explained Laud.
A rather heavy top-layer of absorbent cotton must be used in them, and they should be quilted or tacked at several points to prevent slipping.
If left down, the carpet should be covered with some suitable material, firmly stretched and tacked in place.
One night the students found the gas turned out and a small card tackedon the door of the outer hall.
The wind was dead east, and now we flew before it, and now we tacked in it, up and up the winding stream, and always a little pointed sail came skimming on in suit.
If that had been tacked on the wall in your office all this while, would it have made you feel like giving up, every time you looked at it?
I wonder how many of them there are tacked up in offices all over the country.
Finally, we tacked it down and took it from the frames.
The lining is only tacked in and will be easily removed.
But at last the cover was placed on, nailed down, and the ticket tacked upon the top.
The captain had two good flags, which he placed upon the wall, and the boys brought magazine pictures, and tacked them around the room.
Tacked up with a random, reckless hand, the bizarre collection was typically significant of someone's whimsical, freakish tastes and personality.
There were two riders tackedto this reading of the lines; one of which was, that the words, 'They scorn to be controlled!
In this way, in an hour or two I had quite a good straw hat with a large wide brim, and, although hastily tacked together instead of being sewed, it answered my purpose admirably.
Having tacked a few times I stopped in mid-air, and, as I had evidently lost some little gas, threw over a small amount of sand, till I sailed again almost in equilibrio.
Mebbe now, it might be that you could give a sorter guess 'bout that job we're goin' to have tacked on to us right away?
Then he confessed he had been a member of that Hawk gang and that his name was Gene Hotchkiss, though we both reckoned it was one he'd tacked on when he came up here to keep out of jail.
The sloop tacked immediately and bore down on us, in hopes to get us between them to pepper us, as we supposed.
Farmhouses and peasants at work in the fields loomed up as ships, past which we slowly tacked and then dropped them out of sight behind.
In this manner we tacked gradually upward in zigzags, some forty feet apart, each of us improving the footprints of his predecessor.
He tacked up his k'dentials, And got down to biz--.
Now the deck is laid and tacked down, and the joints painted, and calked if needed, the stem and stern-post replaced permanently, and the bowsprit screwed to the deck and stem.
The fact is that I fancy I can see something, away out there on the weather bow, and I have tacked the boat for the purpose of investigating the object more closely.
Standing on as we were going, we ratched past the island until it was left a couple of miles astern of us, when we tacked ship, and brought the land on our lee beam.
The Dazzler tacked about and began to work in toward the north shore.
He ran aft and tacked about as the jib rattled aloft in the hands of Joe, who quickly joined him.
Then theytacked ship again and started on their way.
In any case it is externally tacked on to it; as Adickes has noted,[641] it is completely ignored in the opening section of the Analytic.
The concluding sentence, ambiguously introduced by the words so werden auch, is tacked on to the preceding argument.
I found it tacked to a tree houtside the lawn, sir.
Well, after we’ve tacked up the paper somebody’ll hold a rifle and we’ll let the baby pull the trigger.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tacked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
