To tack, cruise about.
To solicit money by entertaining the public in the street or in public transport.
A strip of metal, whalebone, wood, or other material, worn in the front of a corset to stiffen it.
A corset.
To survive in a storm (about a ship) and keep afloat.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see ride, out.
To tackle a difficult situation and survive; to survive through; to weather.