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tackle house

tackle house noun: a business that sells fishing equipment for angling such as rods, reels, lines, lures, etc. Also the alternative form of tacklehouse.

Noun

tackle house (plural tackle houses)

  1. A business that sells fishing equipment for angling such as rods, reels, lines, lures, etc.
    • A catalogue of one of our principal tackle houses contains a list of more than 300 varieties, all of them elegantly and artistically made.1889, A. M. Spangler, Near By Fresh and Salt Water Fishing, page 8
    • The Mayflies in Aldam's book, with their straight eyes, were tied by James Ogden of the well known Cheltenham tackle house who himself published a little book on fly-tying in 1879, and who must have been using the dry- fly forty years before that.1926, The Salmon and Trout Magazine - Issues 42-45, page 209

Also used as

tackle house is also the alternative form of tacklehouse.

Forms of tackle house

pluraltackle houses

Questions about tackle house

What does tackle house mean?
Tackle house means a business that sells fishing equipment for angling such as rods, reels, lines, lures, etc.
What part of speech is tackle house?
Tackle house is a noun.
What is the plural of tackle house?
The plural of tackle house is tackle houses.

Words near tackle house in the dictionary

  1. tackle boxes
  2. tackle fall
  3. tackle falls
  4. tackle football
  5. tackle for loss
  6. tackle house
  7. tackle houses
  8. tackle on
  9. tackle porter
  10. tackle porters
  11. tackle twill

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