ground tackle

Questions about ground tackle

What does ground tackle mean?

ground tackle means "a mechanical device that prevents a vessel from moving".

What is another word for ground tackle?

Close synonyms include anchor. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is ground tackle a common word?

ground tackle 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.