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Tack may refer to:
- A type of cut nail, used in upholstery, shoe making and saddle manufacture
- Horse tack, harness and equipment to allow horse-back riding
- Tack (sewing) (also baste or pin), quick, temporary stitching intended to be removed
- Hardtack, a hard cracker or biscuit used for food on sea voyages and during the American Civil War
- Thumbtack or drawing pin, a short nail or pin easily placed and removed by hand
- Augustus Vincent Tack (1870-1949), American painter
- In sailing:
- A tack as a part of the tacking maneuver; in which a sailing boat turns its bow through the wind
- Tack (sailing), the lower corner of a sail's leading edge
- Tack (square sail), a type of rigging unique to square sails
- Scottish lease, as held by a tacksman.
- Blu Tack, a reusable putty-like pressure-sensitive adhesive used for attaching paper items to walls
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