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tackle-house

tackle-house is the alternative form of tacklehouse.

Meaning of tacklehouse

Noun

tacklehouse (plural tacklehouses)

  1. A building located at a port, and the corresponding business operated by one of the major shipping companies, that employs porters to load and unload goods from ships.
    • The under beadle, Philip Huffa, was to be accommodated with lodgings above the tacklehouse, and the Company's cellars were built in beneath it.1977, Anne Crawford, A history of the Vintners' Company, page 167

Forms of tackle-house

pluraltackle-houses

Questions about tackle-house

What is tackle-house the alternative form of?
Tackle-house is the alternative form of tacklehouse.

Words near tackle-house in the dictionary

  1. tackle on
  2. tackle porter
  3. tackle porters
  4. tackle twill
  5. tackle twills
  6. tackle-house
  7. tackle-houses
  8. tackle-porter
  9. tackle-porters
  10. tackleable
  11. tacklebox

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tackle-house (page history and authors); tacklehouse (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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