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Meaning of thack | Babel Free

Verb CEFR B1
/θæk/

Definitions

  1. To cover a roof with thack.
  2. To strike or thump (someone or something); to thwack.
    dialectal, transitive

Examples

“The said day, it was represented that the thacking and covering of Houses houses in the towne with straw and hedder wes very dangerous, and rendered them obnoxious to fyre, and to the endangering of the saids houses and the neighbouring adjacent houses, and that a fatall evidence thereof, by haveing some houses thacked and covered as said is, had falne out in the Gallowgate lately; […] .”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.

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