tackle house

tackle house (plural tackle houses)

1. A business that sells fishing equipment for angling such as rods, reels, lines, lures, etc.
   • 1889, A. M. Spangler, Near By Fresh and Salt Water Fishing, page 8:

     A catalogue of one of our principal tackle houses contains a list of more than 300 varieties, all of them elegantly and artistically made.

   • 1926, The Salmon and Trout Magazine - Issues 42-45, page 209:

     The Mayflies in Aldam's book, with their straight eyes, were tied by James Ogden of the well known Cheltenham tackle house who himself published a little book on fly-tying in 1879, and who must have been using the dry- fly forty years before that.

   • 1976, Harmon Henkin, Fly tackle: a guide to the tools of the trade, page 191:

     The ones that the tackle houses now merchandise are okay, but the genuine article is better and can be obtained in a multitude of shapes and weights, including some very small ones.

2. Alternative form of tacklehouse.
   • 1796, House of Commons, Report from the committee appointed to enquire into the best mode of providing sufficient Accommodation for the increased trade and Shipping of the Port of London.:

     That no Person or Persons shall be admitted or allowed in any of the Tackle Houses in the said City as a Master or Fellow Porter, unless he be a Freeman of the said City, and admitted and allowed by the Master Wardens, and Court of Assistants of such Worshipful Company as shall have a Tackle House, or hath had usual Porters appertaining to a Tackle House.

   • 1878, City of London (England). Corporation, Analytical Index, to the Series of Records Known as the Remembrancia (A.D. 1579-1664), page 499:

     Letter from the Lord Mayor to the Lords of the Council, enclosing a Petition from the Porters of the Tackle Houses of the City, praying assistance for the prevention of the inconvenience like to grow upon them through the erection of a new office, to be established for the lading and unlading within the Port of all merchants' goods not free of the twelve Companies of the City.

   • 1960, Walter M. Stern, The Porters of London, page 138:

     In early 1796, Registers and Rulers of the Society of Tacklehouse and Ticket Porters on behalf of the latter, Masters of the Tackle Houses of the twelve superior Companies of the City of London and the Company of Vintners on behalf of their Wine Tackle Porters separately petitioned the House of Commons against the London Docks bill.