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
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.
