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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The iron bolt to which is shackled the block through which the tack is rove. The tack-irons for the main course are found to port and starboard in the deck; but the tack-irons for the fore course are found sometimes on the cat-heads, and again on bumpkins under the bows.
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