Scottish: no, not the man who keeps asking you for huge chunks of your hard-earned money. This refers to a man who holds a tack from another, a tenant. In Scottish law, a tack is a contract by which something is let, hired or leased to another.
‘Tacksman’s house.’
Source: Adam Nicolson, Sea Room: An Island Life (London: Harper Collins, 2013 (2002)), p. 253
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