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tacking down

tacking down is the present participle and gerund of tack down.

Meaning of tack down

Verb

tack down (third-person singular simple present tacks down, present participle tacking down, simple past and past participle tacked down)

  1. To fix to the ground, with or as if with tacks.

Questions about tacking down

What is tacking down the present participle and gerund of?
Tacking down is the present participle and gerund of tack down.

Words near tacking down in the dictionary

  1. tackiness
  2. tackinesses
  3. tacking
  4. tacking about
  5. tacking boom
  6. tacking down
  7. tacking together
  8. tacking up
  9. tackings
  10. Tackitt
  11. Tackitts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tacking down (page history and authors); tack down (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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