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English
Verb
hold tack (third-person singular simple present holds tack, present participle holding tack, simple past and past participle held tack)
- (idiomatic) To last or hold out.
1662, [Samuel Butler], “”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. , London: John Martyn and Henry Herringman, , published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:But if this twig be made of wood
That will hold tack, I'll make the fur
Fly 'bout the ears of that old cur;
And th' other mungrel vermin, Ralph,
That brav'd us all in his behalf.