The strong wind against the tide raises a respectable sea, and the tacks being longer we made rapid progress, and the motion was exhilarating.
The last, made of wood, is now put in place and tacked fast by the insole tacking machine, when the upper is placed over it and fastened by two tacks to hold it in place.
These tacks in the upper are driven only part way in, so that they may be easily drawn out when no longer needed.
The welt lasting machine next takes the job in hand, it being almost human-like in the evenness and tightness with which it draws the leather around the last, other tacks being driven partly in to hold it in place.
In tacking it to the frame, tacks with tin discs beneath the head (like those with roofing nails) may be used, or a thin light strip of wood may bind the burlap to the frame, and through it the tacks are driven.
This was a feminine custom of long standing, and as no village dressmaker had ever died of pins in the digestive organs, so were no symptoms of carpet-tacks ever discovered in any Dorcas, living or dead.
It was Saturday afternoon, the 24th of December, and the weary sisters of the Dorcas band rose from their bruised knees and removed their little stores of carpet-tacks from their mouths.
Still, we had several tacks more to make before we gained the entrance to Crow Sound, between Saint Mary's and Saint Martin's.
The Téméraire made thirteen tacksand anchored within two cables (400 yards) of her appointed berth with the Fleet.
His tacks and sheets were much thicker than was usual; strengthening pieces were fitted to the sails; there were gaffs for topgallant backstays, and extra braces.
In order that it might not be disturbed by some dusting housemaid, I myself made it fast with three or four tin-tacks which I remember I drove through the velvet stuff into the panelling, using a fireiron as a hammer.
The gallant crew were staunch: while some let fly the halyards and tacks and sheets, others brailed up and hauled down the canvas; but the blast triumphed over all our strength and skill.
Ought to be called the Max Feilding, from the way shetacks about.
After a succession of short tacks the channel straightened, and heeling far over with the strong wind on her quarter the pinkie ran into the open with the tawny surf hissing at her gunwale.
It took them, indeed, two tacks to reach the pinkie.
If there is any difficulty in driving tacks through the tin roof, use a small wire nail and hammer to first punch the holes.
Take your carpet-tacks and hammer and neatly tack down the edges of the opening, as shown by Fig.
Next tack the tin over the wounded spots, putting the tacks close together, as shown by Fig.
With all the many varieties of tar paper and composition roofing there cometacks or wire nails supplied with round tin disks perforated in the centre, which are used as washers to prevent the nail from pulling through the roofing.
This magnetic tack hammer picks up thetacks of its own accord, and the man drives them in the basket as fast as he can touch the magnet to the heads of the tacks and strike the basket.
The man who tacksthem together uses a magnetized tack hammer.
In tacking about between the Bank Chico and Ortiz, you can, as before said, run your tacks upon all the points of the Bank Ortiz as long as you are in 3 fathoms water.
On the morning of the 24th of June, the good ship Pacific was sailing gallantly down the coast of Brazil, all her canvass spread to a light breeze, her port tacks aboard, and heading for Bahia.
There was something grand and imposing about this fine old ship as she moved majestically down the stream, her starboard tacks aboard, the breeze filling her sails so nicely, for she had her royals set.
A light breeze was blowing, and the ship was bowling off four knots, with her port tacks aboard.
The Ocean Star was a little to windward of the stranger with the starboard tacks aboard, and Captain Lane knew it was the stranger's duty to "bear up" and keep away.
The captain walked forward to the forecastle, from where he descried what appeared to be a large square-rigged vessel standing directly for them, with her port-tacks aboard.
We now put in the box the sky negative, and readjust our sheet of paper until after proper focusing the desired portion of the sky occupies the portion reserved for it, leaving the thumb-tacks as a guide when we put our bromide on the screen.
Having secured the image correct in size and focus, place thumb-tacks at all four sides of the sheet of paper or card used to focus the image.
Now we must again adjust our sheet of plain paper until the sky line marked on it coincides with the sky-line on the screen, leaving thumb-tacks as usual.
Place the bromide paper on the screen, using the thumb-tacks as a guide to the correct position in this.
Fold the canvas lengthwise, so as to find the centre, then tack the centre of one end of the cloth to top of bow-piece, or stem, using two or three tacks to hold it securely.
About six yards of ten-ounce cotton canvas, fifty inches wide, will be sufficient to cover a canoe, and it will require two papers of four-ounce copper tacks to secure the canvas on the frame.
Now begin amidships and drive tacks about two inches apart along the gunwale, say an inch below the top surface.
With two or three tacksfasten the cloth at its centre line (the crease) to the stem-piece of the canoe.
It was on their larboard quarter as they made in long tacks for the north.
He used to put tar in the tomato soup, and beeswax and tin-tacks on the chairs.
Indeed, I think that for most of us the time has gone by when we can see the fun of putting tacks on chairs, or thistles in beds, or live snakes in people's boots.
He tacks and wears according as masonry compels him, and he arrives at the gate.
The earnest man first; and Flucker announced the skipper's insanity to the whole town of Newhaven, for, of course, these tacks were all marine solecisms.
Did you ever see anything as idiotically solemn as Tacks Brooker?
If that great big lummox of a Tacks Brooker can dance aren't you ashamed of yourself to give up like that?
On the tennis courts Puffy Ellis and Tacks Brooker were playing mixed doubles!
I promise for the space of one year, never to sit in a game of poker for money, never to shoot craps with Tacks Brooker or Happy Mather.
It's too cold to sneak up to the old swimming hole," said Tacks disconsolately.
We now began to make short tacks to windward; the enemy separating so as to spread a wide clew, in order that they might prevent our getting past, by turning their line and running to leeward.
We had hauled our manly tacks aboard, and had no thoughts of plunder.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tacks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
