Stringing and Tacking
(p.pr.&vb.n.) of String.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
noun
- A loose temporary sewing stitch to hold layers of fabric together.
- synonyms: baste, basting, basting stitch
- Nautical) the act of changing tack.
- synonyms: tack
verb
- Fasten with tacks.
- usage: "tack the notice on the board"
- synonyms: tack
- Turn into the wind.
- usage: "The sailors decided to tack the boat"; "The boat tacked"
- synonyms: tack, wear round
- Create by putting components or members together.
- usage: "She pieced a quilt"; "He tacked together some verses"; "They set up a committee"
- synonyms: assemble, piece, put together, set up, tack, tack together
- Sew together loosely, with large stitches.
- usage: "baste a hem"
- Fix to; attach.
- usage: "append a charm to the necklace"
- Reverse (a direction, attitude, or course of action. ).
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
Adding or combining successive periods of continuous occupation of real property by adverse possessors. This concept enables someone who has not been in possession for the entire statutory period to establish a claim of adverse possession.