TACKLING in Isa_33:23 means simply a ships ropes; in Act_27:19 it is used more generally of the whole gearing (RVm [Note: Revised Version margin.] furniture).
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909
tak?ling. See SHIPS AND BOATS, II., 2., (2).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.
is the rendering in the A. V. of σκευή, which occurs only in Act_27:19, meaning the spars, ropes, chains, etc., of a vessel's furniture (as in Diod. Sic. 14:79; so of household movables, Polyb. 2, 6, 6; equipage, Xenoph. Anab. 4:7, 27; Herodian, 6:4,11; warlike apparatus, Diod. Sic. 11:71). SEE SHIP.
CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.