tackling

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of tackle

noun

1. The process by which something is tackled or dealt with.

   “His struggle with the Church ended in his voyage to Canossa; his tacklings of the problems of industrialism may be said to have reached their high-water mark when, thirty years before this country even approached the problem, […]”

2. The tackle of a vessel.
3. The harness for drawing a carriage.