Question

5) What is the meaning of the word tackle as it's used in this sentence? People will travel for two nights and a day to some spot where all unshelled fish has once been seen, taking $59.99 worth of fishing tackle, “marked down from $60.00 for to-day only,” rent a canoe, hire a guide at more than human life is worth in courts of law, and work with dogged patience from gray dawn till sunset. (1 point) To fasten or attach, as with a tackle; to harness; as, to tackle a horse into a coach or wagon To seize; to lay hold of; to grapple Equipment, apparatus, or gear To cause the ball carrier to fall to the ground, thus ending the forward motion of the ball

Answer 1

In this sentence, the meaning of the word tackle is "equipment, apparatus, or gear." It refers to the fishing equipment that the people are taking with them on their fishing trip.