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Tip tackle; Spear tackling
Spear tackle
A spear tackle is an illegal tackle in rugby union, rugby league and Australian rules football in which a player lifts another player into the air and drops them so that they land on their back, head or neck.RugbyRefs.
tackle
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Football tackle; Tackling; Tackle (football); Tackles; Tackle (disambiguation)
¦ noun
1. the equipment required for a task or sport.
2. a mechanism consisting of ropes, pulley blocks, and hooks for lifting heavy objects.
the running rigging and pulleys used to work a boat's sails.
3. (in sport) an act of tackling an opponent.
4. American Football a player who lines up next to the end along the line of scrimmage.
5. (also wedding tackle) Brit. vulgar slang a man's genitals.
¦ verb
1. make determined efforts to deal with (a difficult task).
initiate discussion with (someone) about a sensitive issue.
2. (in soccer, hockey, rugby, etc.) intercept (an opponent in possession of the ball).
Derivatives
tackler noun
Origin
ME: prob. from Mid. Low Ger. takel, from taken 'lay hold of'.
tackle
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Football tackle; Tackling; Tackle (football); Tackles; Tackle (disambiguation)
(tackles, tackling, tackled)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you tackle a difficult problem or task, you deal with it in a very determined or efficient way.
The first reason to tackle these problems is to save children's lives...
VERB: V n
2.
If you tackle someone in a game such as hockey or football, you try to take the ball away from them. If you tackle someone in rugby or American football, you knock them to the ground.
Foley tackled the quarterback.
VERB: V n
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Tackle is also a noun.
...a tackle by full-back Brian Burrows.
N-COUNT
3.
If you tackle someone about a particular matter, you speak to them honestly about it, usually in order to get it changed or done.
I tackled him about how anyone could live amidst so much poverty.
= confront
VERB: V n about wh/n
4.
If you tackle someone, you attack them and fight them.
He claims Pasolini overtook and tackled him, pushing him into the dirt.
VERB: V n
5.
Tackle is the equipment that you need for a sport or activity, especially fishing.
...fishing tackle.
N-UNCOUNT
Wikipedia
Spear tackle
A spear tackle is an illegal tackle in rugby union, rugby league and Australian rules football in which a player lifts another player into the air and drops them so that they land on their back, head or neck. Spear tackles have caused serious injury including spinal damage, dislocations, broken bones in the shoulder or neck, and death. Due to the dangers, players executing a spear tackle in these sports are punished severely.
