thack

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. fiil To strike or thump (someone or something); to thwack.
2. isim A stroke; a thwack.
3. ünlem The sound of a thack.

   “1860, Albany Fonblanque, Jun., Hector Mainwaring; or, A lease for lives, Ward and Lock, page 205, Thack ! thack ! thack ! the heavy hunting whip came down upon the head and shoulders of Charles Dudley.”

4. isim The weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often specifically thatch.

   “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.”

5. fiil To cover a roof with thack.