dial. [f. TACK sb.2]
1. trans. To take a lease of (a farm, etc.). Sc. rare.
1882. Jamieson, Tack, to take, to lease.
2. a. To put out (cattle) to hired pasture. b. To take (cattle) to pasture for hire.
1839. [Sir G. C. Lewis], Heref. Gloss., He has tacked out his cattle.
1863. Morton, Cycl. Agric., Tacking out, putting cattle upon hired pasturage.
1879–81. Miss Jackson, Shropsh. Word-bk., s.v., Mary Cadwallader ’as sent half-a-crown for tackin’ the donkey, an’ wants to know if you’ll tack ’im a weck or nine days longer.
