Synonyms for tacklings
- conflict
- intervention
- intrusion
- obstruction
- tampering
- arrest
- background
- barring
- blocking
- choking
- hindrance
- interposition
- meddlesomeness
- opposition
- prying
- resistance
- retardation
- backseat driving
- barging in
- checking
- clashing
- clogging
- hampering
- intermeddling
- tackling
- trespassing
Antonyms for tacklings
EXAMPLES FROM THE WEB FOR TACKLINGS
And though I lend you my very rod and tacklings, yet you have not my fiddlestick, that is, the skill wherewith I guide it.
She was white to the lips, but the lips were firmly set; whereas Mr. Goodfellow's jaw hung as though loosed from its tacklings.
WORD ORIGIN
mid-14c., "entangle, involve," from tackle (n.). Sense of "to furnish (a ship) with tackles" is from c.1400; meaning "to harness a horse" is recorded from 1714. The meaning "lay hold of, come to grips with, attack" is attested from 1828, described by Webster that year as "a common popular use of the word in New England, though not elegant;" figurative sense of "try to deal with" (a task or problem) is from 1840. The verb in the sporting sense first recorded 1867. Related: Tackled; tackling.