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Tacker (Noun)

A sewer who fastens a garment with long loose stitches.

Nouns denoting people.

The tacker's loose stitches were meant to be temporary, allowing the garment to be easily altered or fitted later.
As a tacker, her job was to quickly sew the seams of the garment together with long, loose stitches.
The tacker worked rapidly, her needle flying in and out of the fabric as she sewed the garment together.
In the old days, tackers were used to sew together garments that would later be finished by a more skilled seamstress.
The tacker's stitches were not meant to be permanent, but rather a temporary solution until the garment could be properly sewn.

A worker who fastens things by tacking them (as with tacks or by spotwelding).

Nouns denoting people.

The upholstery shop employed a skilled tacker who worked diligently to reattach the torn leather on the vintage sofa.
After several years as a roofer, Joe switched jobs and became a tacker on an auto assembly line.
Tacker Jane swiftly affixed hundreds of roof tiles each day to ensure the crew stayed on schedule.
Prior to mechanization, each bicycle wheel had to be secured by hand, with skilled tacker Anne precisely welding on thousands of thin wires every shift.
James has always found employment easily due to his highly marketable skillset, first working as a roofing tacker then quickly shifting into upholstery when seasonal fluctuations slowed business down.

A hand-held machine for driving staples home.

Nouns denoting man-made objects.

The tacker lay on the workbench, its staples at the ready for the next task.
She pulled the trigger on the tacker, securing the fabric to the frame.
To attach the insulation, he used a tacker to drive staples through the material.
The tacker's staples were running low, so he exchanged it for a freshly loaded one.
With a few quick squeezes of the tacker, the seam was tightly secured.