Meanings
verbhold tack (third-person singular simple present holds tack, present participle holding tack, simple past and past participle held tack)
present singular third person holds tack · participle present holding tack · participle past held tack · past held tack
- idiomaticTo last or hold out.
But if this twig be made of wood That will hold tack, I'll make the fur Fly 'bout the ears of that old cur; And th' other mungrel vermin, Ralph, That brav'd us all in his behalf.
1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC
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