Anagrams of: THUMBTACKING

• a tack for attaching papers to a bulletin board or drawing board

• fasten with thumbtacks

• a Scottish unit of liquid measure equal to 0.9 United States pint

• an obsolete firearm with a long barrel

• one who works hard at boring tasks

• a politician who belongs to a small clique that controls a political party for private rather than public ends

• a mediocre and disdained writer

• a tool (as a hoe or pick or mattock) used for breaking up the surface of the soil

• a car driven by a person whose job is to take passengers where they want to go in exchange for money

• an old or over-worked horse

• a horse kept for hire

• a saddle horse used for transportation rather than sport etc.

• cut with a hacking tool

• be able to manage or manage successfully

• cut away

• kick on the arms

• kick on the shins

• fix a computer program piecemeal until it works

• significantly cut up a manuscript

• cough spasmodically

• the act of providing approval and support

• something forming a back that is added for strengthening

• financial resources provided to make some project possible

• being two identical

• intentionally matched