tackling

English

Verb

tackling

1. present participle and gerund of tackle

Noun

tackling (plural tacklings)

1. The process by which something is tackled or dealt with.
   • 1915, Ford Madox Ford, When Blood is Their Argument: An Analysis of Prussian Culture:

     His struggle with the Church ended in his voyage to Canossa; his tacklings of the problems of industrialism may be said to have reached their high-water mark when, thirty years before this country even approached the problem, […]

2. (nautical) The tackle of a vessel.
3. The harness for drawing a carriage.

Derived terms

• blocking and tackling