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  • noun Plural form of tacket.

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Examples

  • I made small speed, not through lack of craft, but because one can no more drive in tackets properly than take cities unless he gives his whole mind to it; and half of mine was at the Auld Licht manse.

    The Little Minister 1898

  • I haven't yet looked at the sole of _this_ shoe, but I'll engage to tell how many tackets are in it.

    The Iron Horse 1859

  • Some of the trucks especially might have been almost said to look diseased, they were so dirty, while at the corners, where address cards were wont to be affixed, they appeared to have broken out in a sort of small-pox irruption of iron tackets.

    The Iron Horse 1859

  • His shoes were of the double-soled description, which ought more properly to be called brogues; and into them, on the evening previous to his departure, his father had driven tackets and sparables innumerable, until they became like a plate of iron or a piece of warlike workmanship, resembling the scaled cuirass of a mailed knight in the olden time;

    Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIII Alexander Leighton 1837

  • 'Od, but my heart nearly louped off the bit -- a snouff, and a gur-gurring, and over all the plain tramp of a man's heavy tackets and cuddy-heels among the gravel.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch tailor in Dalkeith David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • 'Od, but my heart nearly louped off the bit -- a snouff, and a gur-gurring, and over all the plain tramp of a man's heavy tackets and cuddy-heels among the gravel.

    The Life of Mansie Wauch Tailor in Dalkeith, written by himself David Macbeth Moir 1824

  • James took off his heavy shoes, crammed with tackets, heel-capt and toe-capt, and put them carefully under the table, saying, "Maister John, I'm for nane o 'yer strynge nurse bodies for Ailie.

    Types of Children's Literature Walter Barnes

  • Because, if he didna, the tackets in his boots wad tear a 'its puddin's. "

    Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

  • James took off his heavy shoes, crammed with tackets, heel-capt and toe-capt, and put them carefully under the table, saying, "Maister John, I'm for nane o 'yer strynge nurse bodies for Ailie.

    Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6 Charles Herbert Sylvester

  • James took off his heavy shoes, crammed with tackets, heel-capt and toe-capt, and put them carefully under the table, saying, "Maister

    The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories William Patten 1902

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