aphetic f. ATTACK v.; cf. tack sb. short for attack in Eng. Dial. Dict.
1720. H. Carey, Poems, 56. But if they once Tack you, They certainly Back you.
1731. Peyton, Catastr. Ho. Stuarts, 42. As if a Partridge being near to a Faulcon … might peck and tack her, yet would not she yield to a small Bird.
