carpet tack

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   a tack used to nail down carpets

   Broadertack

Questions about carpet tack

What does carpet tack mean?

carpet tack means "a tack used to nail down carpets".

Is carpet tack a common word?

carpet tack is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.