Tackle

tak'l, n. An apparatus of ropes, pulleys, etc., for raising or lowering heavy weights apparatus by which a thing grasped, moved, or operated; appurtenances for sport or work. (Ifaut.) The rigging and apparatus of a ship.— [tackled (-Id), -lixg.] To harne , seize, lay hold of. [ME. and D. takel. Sw. tackel, tackle, a"pulley, D. takelen, to rig, — that which takes or grasps, fr. Ic. and OSw. taka, to seize, grasp, hold; take, perh. tack; W. tacl, an instrument, tool, is perh. fr. the E.] — Tackling, n. Furniture of the masts and yards of a ship instruments of action; the straps and fixtures by which a horse draws a carriage harne .