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On a port tack, starboard tack, or running before the wind.
The tinkerer attacked the tack with a simple whack. A horse's saddle is part of it's tack. To sail into the wind, it is necessary to tack.
To sail against the wind, a boat has to 'tack'. This means that instead of sailing straight into the wind (which would get you nowhere) you sail in a zig-zag in the direction you intend to go. On each tack, the wind is on a different side of the sail.
The head, clew, and tack are the three primary points of a sail.
a sail
Tack. The verb is to "tack." When you sail a sail boat - or a "sailing boat" in British English parlance - towards or "into" the wind, that action is called "tacking".
Assail my senses no more!
Sailing on a point of sail such that the ship is rigged to sail properly when the wind comes over the starboard rail.
The past tense of assail is assailed.
Deliver me from the temptations which continually assail me.
Deliver me from the temptations which continually assail me.