<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>equipment, apparatus, or gear, especially for fishing: fishing tackle.</li><li>a mechanism or apparatus, as a rope and block or a combination of ropes and blocks, for hoisting, lowering, and shifting objects or materials; purchase.</li><li>any system of leverage using several pulleys.</li><li>Nautical: the gear and running rigging for handling a ship or performing some task on a ship.</li><li>an act of tackling, as in football; a seizing, grasping, or bringing down.</li><li>Football: either of the linemen stationed between a guard and an end.</li><li>the position played by this lineman.</li><li>(formerly) tack 1 (def 8).</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) tackled, tackling: to undertake to handle, master, solve, etc.: to tackle a difficult problem.</li><li>to deal with (a person) on some problem, issue, etc.</li><li>to harness (a horse).</li><li>Football: to seize, stop, or throw down (a ball-carrier).</li><li>Soccer, Field Hockey: to block or impede the movement or progress of (an opponent having the ball) with the result of depriving the opponent of the ball.</li><li>to seize suddenly, especially in order to stop.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>(used without object) tackled, tackling: Football: to tackle an opponent having the ball.</li></ul>