Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A short nail with a prominent head, worn in the soles of strong shoes; a clout-nail or hob-nail.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Scot. A small, broad-headed nail.
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- noun A small, broad-headed
nail ortack .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So who knows meby that was mr tacket whos husband had that Elsie smith scatter gun, ..,
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Merry Christmas Mrs. Tackett you must be near a hundert and does old man tacket still got that purty double barrel it was a barker or something like that? thanks to everybody yall are good folks one and all. did yall know that mr dave writes in my huntin and fishin magazin thats how i found this here bogg
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"And forbye that, there was a wee bit mud on the floor and a tacket mark in that!"
Simon 1907
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Some of my Irish friends had not yet settled, and I asked one of them if he would be good enough to take my money and get me a ticket when he was getting one for himself, and he quickly replied "yes sir, I will get you a tacket," So he relieved me of
Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb : an American slave : written by himself, 1849
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Some of my Irish friends had not yet settled, and Iasked one of them if he would be good enough to take my money and get me a ticket when he was getting one for himself, and he quickly replied "yes sir, I will get you a tacket," So he relieved me of my greatest trouble.
Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb Bibb, Henry, b. 1815 1849
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Some of my Irish friends had not yet settled, and I asked one of them if he would be good enough to take my money and get me a ticket when he was getting one for himself, and he quickly replied "yes sir, I will get you a tacket."
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself Henry Bibb 1834
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Parcel E. Beginning at the southerly end of Sengekon - tacket pond at point of outlet to Trapps pond: thence northeasterly to the west line of the state highway '; thence by said highway northwesterly to the old entrance to said pond; thence westerly by said old entrance to the pond; thence southeasterly by the pond to the point of beginning.
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