Literary notes about TACKLE (AI summary)
The term "tackle" in literature demonstrates remarkable versatility, operating both in a literal and a metaphorical capacity. In nautical and fishing narratives, it refers directly to equipment—ropes, pulleys, or gear needed for rigging and securing vessels—as seen in discussions of a ship’s rigging or the arrangement of fishing tackle ([1], [2], [3], [4]). Conversely, authors also deploy "tackle" as a metaphor for confronting challenges or problems, whether they are intellectual puzzles, interpersonal conflicts, or abstract obstacles ([5], [6], [7], [8], [9]). This dual usage enables writers to blur the line between physical struggle and mental effort, enriching dialogue and narrative with layers of meaning that resonate with both practical action and the perseverance required to engage with complex issues ([10], [11], [12]).
- Hoseason, declaring that he and I must be the first aboard, ordered a tackle to be sent down from the main-yard.
— from Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson - Happily, the Rector was at home, and his visitor was shown into the study, where all the fishing tackle hung.
— from Middlemarch by George Eliot - It required tackle of enormous strength to hoist the dugong on to the platform.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea by Jules Verne - " In the heavy storm that raged for some time the great ship had need of good ground tackle.
— from Heimskringla; Or, The Chronicle of the Kings of Norway by Snorri Sturluson - And now, after we have caught sight of the ascetic priest , let us tackle our problem.
— from The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - “You are right,” said Holmes demurely; “you do find it very hard to tackle the facts.”
— from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle - No, it would be a pity, if a pretty young man like you would want to tackle it in such a wrong manner.
— from Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse - Words look so different on paper and the subject is so difficult, so delicate, so dangerous that it requires infinite skill to tackle it.
— from Complete Original Short Stories of Guy De Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant - "I don't see how anyone can be expected to tackle a case like this unless he knows all the details.
— from The Moon and Sixpence by W. Somerset Maugham - Jump, boys, and swing over the cutting-tackle.”
— from Moby Dick; Or, The Whale by Herman Melville - It warn’t no slouch of an idea; and it warn’t no slouch of a grindstone nuther; but we allowed we’d tackle it.
— from Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain - Lord L. Tear all her tackle.’ Pinnace, when thus applied to a woman, was almost always used with a conscious retention of the metaphor.
— from The Devil is an Ass by Ben Jonson
