Bible dictionaries
Tackling
What Bible dictionaries say about “Tackling”, one article after the other.
Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary
Tackling - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)
(Isa. 33:23), the ropes attached to the mast of a ship. In Acts 27:19 this word means generally the furniture of the ship or the "gear" (27:17), all that could be removed from the ship.
Tackling - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)
TACK'LING, ppr. Harnessing; putting on harness; seizing; falling on.
TACK'LING, n. Furniture of the masts and yards of a ship, as cordage, sails, _c.
1. Instruments of action; as fishing tackling.
2. Harness; the instruments of drawing a carriage.
Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)
The article in Easton + Webster 1828International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)
tak'-ling.
See SHIPS AND BOATS, II, 2, (2).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2
The article in ISBE 1915