"In fact, I will say positively that the man who made our new frying-pan made it to fry things in, and not to be used in connection with a tack-hammer as a dinner-gong.

One day the boatswain's mates repeated the commands at the hatchways: "All hands tack ship, ahoy!"

"Such tomboys they're getting to be, there's no holdin' 'em in!" At once in the half-curtained doorway to the next room appeared a stocky little woman, whose pale face was made emphatic by large steel-rimmed glasses that shrank each eye-pupil to the size of a tack-head.

Tack sheets, wet in some proper disinfectant, to the outer frame of the sick-room door.

It was quieter after the barrage had passed: only the tack-tack of machine guns and the clash of meeting bayonets.

The duties of the seamen are thus described: "The sailers are the ancient men for hoising the sailes, getting the tacks aboord, haling the bowlings, and steering the ship.

"That's the tack ter go about on, youngster," agreed the man of Topsail Island; "but if yer are goin' down ter his place at this hour uv night, we'd better take somebody else along.

After the work with the flax, came the big hard-tack baking, the sheep shearing, and the servants' moving time.

Synæresis is the sinking of two syllables into one: as, seest, for sëest; tacked, for tack-ed; drowned, for drown-ed; spoks't, for spok-est; show'dst, for show-edst; 'tis, for it is; I'll, for I will.