🔩 A small nail 🔨 To fasten with nails

to tacket

9.9

To fasten something with small nails used in shoes or furniture

verb
/ˈtækɪt/

: clavar

The craftsman used a hammer to tacket the fabric onto the chair frame.

Examples

She tacketed the fabric to the wooden frame.
Can you tacket these pieces together?
Before painting, she decided to tacket the canvas securely to the wooden stretcher.
They needed to tacket the poster to the wall so it would not fall down.
The craftsman used a hammer to tacket the fabric onto the chair frame.
Before painting, she decided to tacket the canvas securely to the wooden stretcher.
They needed to tacket the poster to the wall so it would not fall down.

Synonyms

to nail

vsto tacket

85 1.0

To attach something with a thin pointed piece of metal

is narrower focusing on very small metal fasteners instead of general spikes

to tack onto

vsto tacket

1 5.4

To fasten something to a surface with a small nail or pin

is about fastening with very small metal fasteners rather than larger ones

to brad

vsto tacket

9.1

To fasten thin pieces of wood with small nails

is about fastening with very small metal fasteners rather than broader fasteners

Antonyms

to loosen

88 1.0

Make something less tight so it can move or open

to unfasten

5 3.4

To open something by undoing a button or zipper

How Firm

to nail

85 1.0

to tacket

9.9

Surface Forms

tacket infinitive

tacketed past

tacketed past participle

tacketing present participle

tackets third person singular

Morphology

tacket = tack (semi-transparent) = tack + et

The form is probably built from 'tack' plus a diminutive suffix, so the fastening sense is visible, but the word is old and not a fully productive modern pattern.

Etymology

Tacket as a verb comes from the nail tacket (and the word tack) and simply means to fasten something with those small nails. So to tacket a piece of leather or a canvas is to fix it by hammering in tiny nails.