Meanings (ES + gloss)
mostacilla • tachuela
A small nail with a flat head.
A tough test for even the strongest climber, it was new to the Tour de France this year, but its debut will be remembered for the wrong reasons after one of those spectators scatte…
hilván
A loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth.
curso • rumbo
A course or heading that enables a sailing vessel to head upwind.
curso de acción
A direction or course of action, especially a new one; a method or approach to solving a problem.
Maud Gonne’s letter about taking them off O’Connell street at night: disgrace to our Irish capital. Griffith’s paper is on the same tack now: an army rotten with venereal disease:…
So stoutly held to tack by those near North-wales men;
virar
The maneuver by which a sailing vessel turns its bow through the wind so that the wind changes from one side to the other.
Phrases
Meanings (ES + gloss)
clavar • prender • sujetar con tachuelas
To nail (something) with a tack (small nail with a flat head).
hilvanar
To sew/stitch with a tack (loose seam used to temporarily fasten pieces of cloth).
voltejear
To maneuver a sailing vessel so that its bow turns through the wind, i.e. the wind changes from one side of the vessel to the other.
agregar • añadir
To add something as an extra item.
In short, they tend to present Indian English as nothing more than "standard" English with a select collection of lexical peculiarities tacked on, as it were, many of which would b…
to tack (something) onto (something)