See Also:

tacket (iou) and erg (medicine)


tacket (iou)



tacket noun & verb. Now Scot. & dial. ME.
[from TACK noun1 + -ET1.]
A. noun. A nail. Later, a small nail, a tack; esp. (Scot. & north.) a hobnail used to stud the soles of shoes etc. ME.
b. verb trans. Stud (shoes etc.) with tackets. Chiefly as tacketed ppl adjective. M19.
tackety adjective (Scot.) (of a shoe) studded with tackets M19.

erg (medicine)


erg
<unit> A measurement unit for energy. It is equal to 2.4 x 10-8 gram calories or 0.624 x 1012 electronvolts, or the amount of work done by a force of one dyne acting on a distance of one centimetre.