Emily Dickinson Lexicon

TACK'LE, n. [D. takel, a pulley and tackle; takelen, to rig; G. takel, takeln; Sw. tackel, tackla; Dan. takkel, takler; W. taclu, to put in order, to dress, deck, set right; taclau, tackling; accouterments; tacyl, a tool. This seems to belong to the family of tack, Gr. τασσω. The primary sense is to put on, or to set or to put in order.]

1. A machine for raising or lowering heavy weights, consisting of a rope and blocks called a pulley. Mar. Dict.
2. Instruments of action; weapons. She to her tackle fell. Hudibras.
3. An arrow. Chaucer.
4. The rigging and apparatus of a ship. Tackle-fall, the rope, or rather the end of the rope of a pulley, which falls and by which it is pulled. Ground-tackle, anchors, cables, &c. Gun-tackle, the instruments for hauling cannon in or out. Tack-tackle, a small tackle to pull down the tacks of the principal sails. Mar. Dict.