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Thack

THACK

, for thatch, is local. [See Thatch.]

Definition 2024


thack

thack

English

Verb

thack (third-person singular simple present thacks, present participle thacking, simple past and past participle thacked)

  1. (transitive) To strike; thump; thwack.

Etymology 2

From Middle English thacce, from thakken (to stroke). See above.

Noun

thack (plural thacks)

  1. A stroke; a thwack.

Etymology 3

From Middle English thak, thakk, thakke, from Old English þæc, from Proto-Germanic *þaką, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-. Cognate with Dutch dak, Low German Dack, Danish tag (roof), German Dach (roof), Old Norse þak (thatch, roof). Akin to Latin toga (garment) and Ancient Greek στέγος (stégos, roof)[1]. See also thatch.

Noun

thack (plural thacks)

  1. the weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often thatch specifically
    • 1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, p. 223.
      This outer layer was generically known as 'thack', but, owing to the fact that the vast majority of buildings in early times were covered with a thacking of straw or some similar material, 'thatch' gradually acquired its modern restricted significance of straw, or reed, heling.

Verb

thack (third-person singular simple present thacks, present participle thacking, simple past and past participle thacked)

  1. To cover a roof with thack.

References

  1. tag” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog