To fasten or attach with a tack or tacks Tacked the carpet down. Pin (Nautical) A belaying pin. Tack To fasten or mark (cloth or a seam, for example) with a loose basting stitch. Pin (Nautical) A thole pin. Tack To put together loosely and arbitrarily Tacked some stories together in...
Assistants often help an experienced carpet layer on each job. The assistant may cut the under-padding and hammer it to the floor with carpeting tacks. In the case of tackless styles of carpets, the assistant layer will first add a special adhesive strip to the floor before stretching and po...
What does tacks mean in mother to son? As a black woman, her journey has been hard, and as she describes it, the staircase she has had to climb has “tacksin it”, “splinters”, “boards tore up”, “places with no carpet”, and is “bare”. It has not been a smooth and eas...
Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited, Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track The next one surrendered his bike, only for that, too, to give him a second flat as he started the descent. (in the plural) A type of ladies' shoes with very low heels. (...
To fasten or attach with a tack or tacks Tacked the carpet down. Stitch A single pass of a needle in sewing; the loop or turn of the thread thus made. Tacking To fasten or mark (cloth or a seam, for example) with a loose basting stitch. Stitch An arrangement of stitches in sewing...
@seag47 – I have removed popcorn ceiling paint before, and it was an extremely messy process. That's why you will want to either get all your furniture out of the room or cover it with plastic sheeting. You might even want to cover the floors, especially if you have carpet. ...
own personal history,–the room where she used to sleep, the high-chair in which she sat as a baby and which was presently to be made over to little Rose, the sofa where Deniston offered himself, and the exact spot on the carpet on which she had stood while they were being married!
“Well, son, I’ll tell you:Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.It’s had tacks in it,And splinters,And boards torn up,And places with no carpet on the floor—Bare.”—“Mother to Son”by Langston Hughes (The entire poem is a sustained metaphor.) ...
#*2012, July 15. Richard Williams in Guardian Unlimited,Tour de France 2012: Carpet tacks cannot force Bradley Wiggins off track On Sunday afternoon it was as dark as night, with barely room for two riders abreast on a gradient thattouches20%. ...
Pure Barre,like most other barre classes I’ve attended, is on a carpeted floor. The lighting starts bright and gradually gets darker, and I felt as though you used the barre much more often, for more than just leg work. You use a ball, small hand weights, and a resistance band duri...