[f. as prec. + -ING2.] That tacks; that joins or connects: cf. prec.
1705. Hickeringill, Priest-cr., II. Wks. 1716, III. 126. If they get … a Tacking Parliament, to make Acts of Uniformity and Conformity to their Models and little Ways. Ibid., iv. 40. I never yet in all our Chronicles met with a Parliament stigmatized with the Name of the Tacking Parliament.
