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▪ I. thwack, n.|θwæk|
[f. the verb.]
A vigorous stroke with a stick or the like; a whack. Also as int.
1587T. Hughes, etc. Misfort. Arthur iv. ii, Boystrous bangs with thumping thwacks fall thicke. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. ii. 76 A company of lusty shoulder-thumpers, who discharg'd the mutuall thwacks so stoutly, that they made a noise, as if they were beating of hemp. 1663Butler Hud. i. ii. 795 But Talgol first with hardy Thwack Twice bruis'd his head, and twice his back. 1704Swift T. Tub xi. (1709) 131 Noble Captain, lend a reasonable Thwack..with that cane of yours. 1832W. Irving Alhambra (1851) 250 Bestowing a hearty thwack with a cudgel on the flanks of his donkey. 1859G. Meredith R. Feverel xxiii, Sounding a thwack on his knee. 1908L. M. Montgomery Anne of Green Gables xv. 156 And then—Thwack! Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 14 Aug. 6/3 Thwack! Boston's Jim Rice sends the first pitch sailing over the left-field wall.
▪ II. thwack, v.|θwæk|
Also 6–7 thwacke, thwak, 6, 8 dial. twack.
[app. echoic, from the sound of beating vigorously: see sense 1.
But it may have been altered from the earlier thack v.2, orig. to pat, to clap, but in 1480 used of showering blows, the initial thw- expressing more forcible effort than th-; the sense ‘clap’ might also pass easily into sense 3 here, which does not easily arise out of 1.]
1. trans. To beat or strike vigorously, as with a stick; to bang, thrash, whack.
a1530Heywood Johan & Tyb (Brandl) 31, I shall bete her and thwak her. a1535More in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1818) II. 123 Now I will speak but three words, and I durst jeopard a wager that none here [on the Continent] shall pronounce it after me: ‘Thwarts [? error for Thwaites] thwackt him with a thwitle’. 1560Ingelend Disob. Child G ij, Beynge full often with the staffe thwacked. a1626Middleton Mayor of Queenb. v. i, Take all my cushions down and thwack them soundly. 1712Arbuthnot John Bull iv. vii, To snatch the cudgel..that he might thwack Lewis with it. 1881Besant & Rice Chapl. of Fleet i. iv, To see two sturdy fellows thwack and belabour each other with quarter-staff, single-stick, or fists.
absol.1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 43 Flailes lustily thwack, least plough seede lack.
b. fig. To ‘beat’ in a contest, to defeat severely.
1607Shakes. Cor. iv. v. 189 Here's he that was wont to thwacke our Generall, Caius Martius. 1821Scott Kenilw. ii, What adventurous knight ever thought of the lady's terror, when he went to thwack giant, dragon, or magician,..for her deliverance? 1869Blackmore Lorna D. ii, If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art.
c. intr. To fall with a thwack or sharp knock.
a1851Moir Winter Wild vii, To the quaking sheet below, Down thwacks he, with a thud like thunder!
2. trans. To drive or force by or as by thwacking or beating; to knock (down, in, out, etc.). Also fig.
1566Drant Wail. Hierim. K iv, To thwacke downe walles, to even them with the flore. 1611Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 37 Wee'l thwack him hence with Distaffes. 1743Lond. & Country Brew. ii. (ed. 2) 126 Beating or Thwacking the Yeast into working Ale or Beer. 1906Outlook 22 Sept. 374/1 If Busby's rhythmic rod thwacked Latin metre into the head of more than one poet.
3. a. To clap; to clap together, to pack or crowd together (things or persons); to clap down.
1589Fleming Virg. Georg. ii. 24 The bushie thornie fields, Where many grauell stones be thwackt. 1610Bp. Hall Apol. Brownists 14 [He] thwacks fourteene Scriptures into the margent. 1641Milton Animadv. ii. Wks. 1851 III. 208 Who would have thought a man could have thwackt together so many incongruous similitudes? 1674N. Fairfax Bulk & Selv. 151 The shruff, moss and hair, that the nest was thwackt together of. 1687A. Lovell tr. Thevenot's Trav. i. 25 Many of them being thwackt together into one Room, they are not a little straitned. 1760[see thwacking vbl. n.]. 1902Daily Chron. 17 Feb. 7/5 [Prisoner in Police Court], I don't care what you say; thwack me down three months' [hard labour] in the book, quick.
†b. intr. (for refl.) To crowd (to a place). rare.
1652Brome City Wit ii. ii, All the wise wenches i' the Town will thwack to such Sanctuaries, when the times are troublesome.
†c. trans. To pack or crowd (a thing or place). Const. with something. Obs.
Much used in this sense from c 1585 to 1700.
1582Stanyhurst æneis iii. (Arb.) 85 Weau'd wurcks thwackt with honor. 1588A. Munday in Farr S.P. Eliz. (1845) I. 229 He that had his barnes so thwakt, And bade his soul take rest. 1607J. Carpenter Plaine Mans Plough 15 The field was thwacked with thornes, tares, and noysome weeds. 1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 103 Its Streets were..thwack'd with Carts, pester'd with Porters. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 58 We could discern the River to be thwacked with small Craft.
†d. intr. (for pass.) To be packed or filled full.
1650Howell Giraffi's Rev. Naples i. 114 The Church..was as full as it could thwack in thick multitudes.
4. The verb-stem in combination with a n.: thwack-coat a., that thwacks the coat; thwack-stave, a quarter-staff, a cudgel.
1593G. Harvey Pierce's Super. Wks. (Grosart) II. 126 To be sold at the signe of the Crabbtree Cudgell in Thwack-coate Lane. 1857Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. II. 504 Every bodily exercise,..the footrace or the gallop, single⁓stick or thwackstave, spear or sword.
Hence thwacked |θwækt|, ppl. a. (a) beaten; † (b) packed, crowded (obs.).
a1670Hacket Serm. Incarnation vii. Wks. (1675) 64 Let two or three be gathered together in his name..; but if you will multiply those two or three to hundreds..of souls, O then his desire is upon..those thwackt congregations. |