thackn.

/θak/

Forms: Old English þæc, Middle English þak, þakke, Middle English–1500s (1800s dialect) thak, Middle English thakk(e, Middle English–1500s (1800s dialect) thake, Middle English–1600s thacke, 1500s thecke, thaec, 1500s– thack (1800s Scottish theck).

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English þæc = West Frisian thek , Old Low German *þak (Middle Dutch dac (dāke ), Dutch, Middle Low German, Low German dak ), Old High German dach , dah , thah (Middle High German, German dach ) roof, Old Norse þak roof, thatch (Swedish tak , Danish tag ) < Germanic *þako^m , < root þek- to cover, Indo-European teg- , in Latin tegĕre to cover, toga covering, gown, tugurium hut, cottage, Greek τέγος , στεγή roof, στέγειν to cover; Lithuanian stogas roof; Old Irish teg , Irish and Gaelic tigh house. See thatch v.

Now regional.

†1. The roof of a house or building. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun]

roofOE

thackOE

heelinga1325

coverture1382

house-copa1425

covering1459

housetop1526

rooftop1564

house heada1600

tecture1624

OE Crist III 1503 Earge ge þæt læstun, þearfum forwyrndon þæt hi under eowrum þæce mosten ingebugan.

c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. viii. 8 Drihten nam ic wyrðe  ðu ga under þacu minne.

c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxiv. 17 Seþe on þæce siæ ne stigað he niðer.

c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) cxxviii. 4 Þam þe on huses þæce heah aweaxeð.

c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14689 In eueses þey [sparrows] crepte, & in þe þakkes.

1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxvii. 156 They ought to mounte up to the wyndowes of the houses and upon the thakkes.

1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xii. 53 Spreding fra thak to thak, baith but and ben.

1524 Ld. Dacre Let. to Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 249 Ald Howses wherof the thak and covereings ar taken awey.

1526 in T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 133 The said tenant to keep his hous tennantable, upon his own charges, with thake and walle.

a. That with which the roof of a house or the like is covered to protect it from the weather; spec. the covering of straw, reeds, or the like disposed so as to carry off the rain: = thatch n. 1.In Eng. Dial. Dict. from Scotland to Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and from Worcester to East Anglia.

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society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching

thacka900

wattlesc900

thatch1398

thackingc1440

litter1453

long straw1591

helm1669

thatching1671

straw1765

yelma1825

thatch-grass1884

a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. viii. [x.] 180 Þæs huses hrof..wæs mid gyrdum awunden & mid þæce beþeaht.

a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xiv. [xvi.] 202 On beamum & on ræftrum & on wagum & on watelum & on ðeacon.

c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 136 Ða tear þæt hors þæt ðæc of ðære cytan hrofe.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 732/23 Hectectura, thak.

1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 244 Thak þat the grete wynde blewe of þe house.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 280/1 Thacke of a house, chaume.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 1 To be well aduised..before he lay on Thack, Tile..or Plaster.

1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 363^v/1 That they would euer in houses of thacke Their liues lead.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 144 One to drawe thacke and the other to serve the thatcher.

1721 A. Ramsay Ode to Mr. F—— 30 Wa's of divots, roof'd wi' thack.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. viii. 124 Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses.

1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. x. 208 It puts me i' mind o' the swallows as was under the thack last 'ear.

1912 N.E.D. at Thack Mod. north. dial. Wet as thack.

b. The covering of properly disposed straw with which the sloping top of a stack of corn or hay-rick is thatched. thack and rape (Scottish), this thatching and the straw rope with which it is secured: often used allusively.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking

stacking1531

mowing1572

ricking1688

thack and rape1787

tippling1803

1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 68 An thack and rape secure the toil-won crap.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. x*. 281 He kens..wha feeds him and cleeds him, and keeps a tight thack and rape.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. Gloss. 371 ‘As tight as thack and rape can make it’ is a proverbial phrase, signifying complete security.

1896 Speaker 3 Oct. 353/1 All is secured in the cornyard under ‘thack and raip’.

3. transferred. Covering (in quot. c1480 = skin).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > skin > [noun]

swardc725

fellOE

hidea1000

leather1303

skina1325

rinda1413

swarth?c1450

swadc1460

thackc1480

skin coat1589

hackle1609

flesha1616

pelta1626

integument1664

barka1758

exoskeleton1839

c1480 (a1400) St. Vincent 276 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 267 Þane of þe frame he bad hym tak, þat hale had nothire lith na þak.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

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thack-roof n.

C2.

thack-board n. a wooden roofing tile, a shingle.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > piece split off > thin for roofing

shinglec1200

spoon1316

thack-board1354

shindle1585

shingle-board1589

1354 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 91 In ccc de thakbord' emp. pro stauro ecclesiæ.

1418 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 402/1 Norwich, Thackboard.

1447–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 186 In repar. molendini..in c^ma thakborde.

1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iv. 126 For fyr all cler Soyn throw the thak-burd [1487 St. John's Cambr. thik burd] can apper.

thack-broach n. = thack-pin n., thack-prick n., broach n.¹ 5.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch

prayeOE

strabrod1335

broachc1440

thack-broach1573

thatch-prick1688

thack-prick1828

scollop1829

spit1833

stob1837

thack-nail1846

thack-peg1846

thack-pin1846

thatching-stake1879

thatch-hook1886

thatch-peg1897

1573 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 208 Hookes & eies with thackbroches.

thack divot n. (also thack dowat) = thack turf n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > turf > [noun] > for building or constructing > for roofing

thack divot1504

divotc1540

thack turf1576

1504 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 424 For theking of divers houses with thak dowat.

thack-gate n. Scottish see quot.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gable > parts of

skew1789

thack-gate1825

saddle stone1843

1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Thak Thack-gate, the sloping edge of the gable-tops of a house, when the thatch covers them; in contradistinction from the Wind-skews that are raised higher than the thatch.

thack house n. a thatched house.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction

thatch-house1521

slate house1554

thack housec1600

frame house1627

log-house1662

straw1665

thatch1693

tin-house1798

fog house1799

leaf house1811

rock house1818

black house1819

blockhouse1821

white house1824

slab-and-bark house1826

brown house1845

brush house1854

soddy1877

hurdle-housea1879

bottle house1913

stucco1922

prefab1942

Portal house1944

Airey1945

yali1962

c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1804) 209 He exposit..sum of his souldiors to sum thak housses besyd the West Port, in a windie nyght, and pat the same in fyre [not in ed. 1825].

1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. i A snug thack house, before the door a green.

1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) ‘Thack hoose’—a thatched house.

thack-lead n. lead with which a roof is covered.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > lead > types of > for roofing

leads1578

moss1703

thack-lead1827

1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 214 Capper and thack-lead aff were tane.

thack-nail n. = thack-pin n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch

prayeOE

strabrod1335

broachc1440

thack-broach1573

thatch-prick1688

thack-prick1828

scollop1829

spit1833

stob1837

thack-nail1846

thack-peg1846

thack-pin1846

thatching-stake1879

thatch-hook1886

thatch-peg1897

1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) Thack-nail, a wooden pin or stob used in fastening thatch to the roof of a building.

thack-peg n. = thack-pin n.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch

prayeOE

strabrod1335

broachc1440

thack-broach1573

thatch-prick1688

thack-prick1828

scollop1829

spit1833

stob1837

thack-nail1846

thack-peg1846

thack-pin1846

thatching-stake1879

thatch-hook1886

thatch-peg1897

1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) Thack-peg, a wooden pin or stob used in fastening thatch to the roof of a building.

thack-pin n. a sharpened pin or peg used in fastening the thatch on a roof.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch

prayeOE

strabrod1335

broachc1440

thack-broach1573

thatch-prick1688

thack-prick1828

scollop1829

spit1833

stob1837

thack-nail1846

thack-peg1846

thack-pin1846

thatching-stake1879

thatch-hook1886

thatch-peg1897

1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) Thack-pin, a wooden pin or stob used in fastening thatch to the roof of a building.

thack-prick n. a sharpened wand or stick for the securing of thatch.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch

prayeOE

strabrod1335

broachc1440

thack-broach1573

thatch-prick1688

thack-prick1828

scollop1829

spit1833

stob1837

thack-nail1846

thack-peg1846

thack-pin1846

thatching-stake1879

thatch-hook1886

thatch-peg1897

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Thack-pricks, sharpened twigs for the securing of thatch.

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thack-prod n. = thack-prick n.

thack-rape n. Scottish and northern dialect a rope (usually of twisted straw) used in fixing the thatch on a rick or cottage roof.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > rope for fastening down thatch

simmon1616

straw rope1763

thack-rape1876

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Thack-reeaps, the cords for securing the thatch.

1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Thack-rape.

thack-stone n. a thin flat stone (e.g. Stonesfield slate) used for roofing.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > for roofing

thack-stone1442

rigging stone1471

hilling-stone1660

tilestone1668

1442 Calverley Charters (1904) 253 j acre of soile..where he may gett and tak thakstone.

1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI, c. 26 (1816) IV. 627/1 To thaick þe same againe w^t Sklait, or skailȝee, leade, tyild, or Thackstone.

1880 A. I. Ritchie Church St. Baldred 37 The roof of the east end of Whitekirk Church is covered with thackstones.

thack-tile n. [Old English þæctigile; compare German dachziegel] a roofing tile.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > for roofing

tilea725

thack-tilec725

long twelve1688

roof tile1936

c725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 1043 Imbricibus, þæctigilum.

1477 Act 17 Edw. IV c. 4 Pleintile, autrement nosmer thaktile, roftile, ou crestile.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. ii. 4 Gallie and Thacke Tiles.

c1800 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1814) 279 In Yorkshire they call bricks wall tile, and tiles thack tile.

thack turf n. a roofing turf or sod.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > turf > [noun] > for building or constructing > for roofing

thack divot1504

divotc1540

thack turf1576

1576 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1580. 20/1 Pro 108 oneribus focalium..et thak turffis.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

thackv.¹

/θak/

Forms: Middle English–1500s (1800s dialect) thak, 1500s thacke, 1600s thake, Scottish thaick, 1500s– thack.

Etymology: apparently partly (in form thake ) from Old English þacian, < þæc thack n. (so Middle High German, German dachen to roof, < dach ): compare Scots mak , tak , for make , take ; but thak , thack , may also have been a later formation < thack n. See also thatch v., theek v.

Now dialect.

1. intransitive. To put thatch on houses; = thatch v. 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (intransitive)] > roof > thatch

thacka1100

thatch1377

a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 261 Me mæcg in Agusto and Septembri and Octobri ðacian, ðecgan and fald weoxian.

1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 247 Paid to a thakker thakkyng on þe same barne.

1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xx. f. xxxvii He shall bothe thacke and daube at his owne cost.

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xvi To mowe theyr stubble, other to thacke or to brenne.

a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 145 Thatchers allwayes beginne att the Eize [sc. eaves] and soe thake upwards till they come to the ridge.

2. transitive. To cover (a roof) or roof (a house) with thatch, formerly also with lead, tiles, etc.; = theek v. 1; spec. to cover the top of a rick with straw or other material so laid as to carry off the rain.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > thatch

thatch1398

theek1399

thackc1440

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 490/1 Thakkyn howsys, sartatego,..sarcitego.

1474 Coventry Leet Bk. 389 Þat no maner man frohensfurth thak ne couer his house with strawe nor brome within this Cite.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 754/2 Sythe I can nat tyle my house, I must be fayne to thacke it.

1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 9 The churche thacked with leade.

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. v. iv. 167/2 Houses and cottages..Which, as Diodorus Siculus saith were vsually thacked with reed.

1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI, c. 26 (1816) IV. 627/1 To thaick þe same againe w^t Sklait, or skailȝee, leade, tyild, or Thackstone.

c1700 J. Fraser Chron. Frasers (1905) 496 Tirr the Kirk to thack the quire.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Thack, v. to thatch.

1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. It will take two threave of strea to thack the hay-stack.

Derivatives

thacked adj.

/θækt/ thatched.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > type of roof

thatched1467

side?a1475

thacked1530

vaulted1552

shingleda1563

slated1611

unshingled1611

high-pitch1614

slate-pointed1648

killesed1649

hipped1663

pantiledc1672

overpitched1677

underpitched1677

low-pitcheda1684

pitched1773

theeked1792

peaked1797

shingle1810

thackless1810

choppered1818

wagon-headed1823

unlathed1854

break-back1856

shingly1857

saddleback1861

scaled1862

gambrelled1863

thatchy1864

weather-slated1870

thatchless1882

weather-tiled1887

monopitch1941

tile-roofed1962

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 699/1 This is a mete man to sytte on a thacked house to scarre away crowes.

1597 1st Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. i. 134 Some thacked cottage or some cuntrie hall.

1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. ii. 2091 True mirth we may enioy in thacked stall.

1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Thack'd, thatched.

ˈthacking n. the action of thatching; also concrete the material used for the purpose, thatch.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching

thacka900

wattlesc900

thatch1398

thackingc1440

litter1453

long straw1591

helm1669

thatching1671

straw1765

yelma1825

thatch-grass1884

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 490/1 Thakkynge, sartatectum.

1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1894) I. 168 The reparacion of the belles, thakkyng and other necessaries pertenyng to the sayd churche.

1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. i. v. 17 Whole Strawe Wheate..Husbandmen esteeme it so much for their thacking.

c1680 H. Leigh in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1908) III. 252 The common and ordinary thacking is of a kind of Divet [= sod].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

thackv.²

/θak/

Etymology: Old English þaccian , apparently onomatopoeic. Compare thwack v.

Obsolete exc. dialect.

†1.

a. transitive. To clap with the open hand or the like; to pat, slap lightly. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (transitive)] > touch lightly

thackc897

featherc1230

attouchc1480

palp1534

flatter1599

tat1607

touch1647

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike lightly

thackc897

tap?c1225

touchc1330

strike1488

tip1567

tit1589

tat1607

dib1609

bob1745

popc1817

percuss1827

rap1873

c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xli. 303 Swa [swa] wildu hors, ðonne we h[ie] æresð gefangnu habbað, we hie ðacciað & straciað mid bradre hande.

a900 K. Ælfred in Cockayne Shrine (1864) 185 Hine lyst bet þaccian and cyssan ðonne oðerne on bær lic.

c1305 Land Cokayne 141 To þe maid dun hi fleeþ And geþ þe wench al abute, And þakkeþ al her white toute.

c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's T. (Harl.) 261 This carter thakketh his hors vpon the croupe.

c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 118 Whan Nicholas hadde doon thus euerydel And thakked [MS. Petworth twakked] hire vp on the lendes wel.

†b. intransitive. To beat, to shower blows. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > use of bow and arrow > shoot arrows [verb (intransitive)] > shower arrows

thack1480

1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliv. 299 Our men of armes and archyers that thakked on hem so thikke with arewes.

†2. transitive. To clap (something) on or in a place.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > forcibly, firmly, or quickly

thudc1000

throwa1250

pilt?c1250

casta1300

pusha1350

hurla1375

paltc1390

thrusta1400

thack1542

clap1559

to throw on1560

planch1575

protrude1638

shove1807

bung1825

shoot1833

slap1836

plunk1866

slam1870

spank1880

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in contact with a surface > forcibly

thack1542

1542 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) IX. 42 But here he thakked on as many wordes, as he did bifore lawes in the other parte.

1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. E.3 The thorny thumps that Thought did thacke within my wofull breast.

3. dialect. To thwack v., beat, flog.

ΘΚΠ

the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike hard or vigorously

dingc1300

knock1377

thwack1533

stoter1690

sock1699

whack1721

slog1824

whither1825

drub1849

thack1861

slug1862

dang1866

whomp1973

1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 22 (E.D.D.) Ye weel deserve a thackin' For tellin [etc.].

1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict. [Norfolk] He rarely thacked th' old dicky (donkey).

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019).

n.c725

v.¹a1100

v.²c897

单词	thack
释义	thackn. /θak/ Forms: Old English þæc, Middle English þak, þakke, Middle English–1500s (1800s dialect) thak, Middle English thakk(e, Middle English–1500s (1800s dialect) thake, Middle English–1600s thacke, 1500s thecke, thaec, 1500s– thack (1800s Scottish theck). Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Common Germanic: Old English þæc = West Frisian thek , Old Low German þak (Middle Dutch dac* (dāke ), Dutch, Middle Low German, Low German dak ), Old High German dach , dah , thah (Middle High German, German dach ) roof, Old Norse þak roof, thatch (Swedish tak , Danish tag ) < Germanic þako^m , < root þek-* to cover, Indo-European teg- , in Latin tegĕre to cover, toga covering, gown, tugurium hut, cottage, Greek τέγος , στεγή roof, στέγειν to cover; Lithuanian stogas roof; Old Irish teg , Irish and Gaelic tigh house. See thatch v. Now regional. †1. The roof of a house or building. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] roofOE thackOE heelinga1325 coverture1382 house-copa1425 covering1459 housetop1526 rooftop1564 house heada1600 tecture1624 OE Crist III 1503 Earge ge þæt læstun, þearfum forwyrndon þæt hi under eowrum þæce mosten ingebugan. c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. viii. 8 Drihten nam ic wyrðe  ðu ga under þacu minne. c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. xxiv. 17 Seþe on þæce siæ ne stigað he niðer. c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) cxxviii. 4 Þam þe on huses þæce heah aweaxeð. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 14689 In eueses þey [sparrows] crepte, & in þe þakkes. 1489 W. Caxton tr. C. de Pisan Bk. Fayttes of Armes ii. xxxvii. 156 They ought to mounte up to the wyndowes of the houses and upon the thakkes. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid iv. xii. 53 Spreding fra thak to thak, baith but and ben. 1524 Ld. Dacre Let. to Wolsey in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. I. 249 Ald Howses wherof the thak and covereings ar taken awey. 1526 in T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 133 The said tenant to keep his hous tennantable, upon his own charges, with thake and walle. 2. a. That with which the roof of a house or the like is covered to protect it from the weather; spec. the covering of straw, reeds, or the like disposed so as to carry off the rain: = thatch n. 1.In Eng. Dial. Dict. from Scotland to Oxfordshire, Berkshire, and from Worcester to East Anglia. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching thacka900 wattlesc900 thatch1398 thackingc1440 litter1453 long straw1591 helm1669 thatching1671 straw1765 yelma1825 thatch-grass1884 a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. viii. [x.] 180 Þæs huses hrof..wæs mid gyrdum awunden & mid þæce beþeaht. a900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iii. xiv. [xvi.] 202 On beamum & on ræftrum & on wagum & on watelum & on ðeacon. c1000 Ælfric Homilies II. 136 Ða tear þæt hors þæt ðæc of ðære cytan hrofe. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 732/23 Hectectura, thak. 1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 244 Thak þat the grete wynde blewe of þe house. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 280/1 Thacke of a house, chaume. 1578 J. Banister Hist. Man i. f. 1 To be well aduised..before he lay on Thack, Tile..or Plaster. 1598 Chaucers Dreame in T. Speght Wks. G. Chaucer f. 363^v/1 That they would euer in houses of thacke Their liues lead. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 144 One to drawe thacke and the other to serve the thatcher. 1721 A. Ramsay Ode to Mr. F—— 30 Wa's of divots, roof'd wi' thack. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering I. viii. 124 Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses. 1859 ‘G. Eliot’ Adam Bede I. i. x. 208 It puts me i' mind o' the swallows as was under the thack last 'ear. 1912 N.E.D. at Thack Mod. north. dial. Wet as thack. b. The covering of properly disposed straw with which the sloping top of a stack of corn or hay-rick is thatched. thack and rape (Scottish), this thatching and the straw rope with which it is secured: often used allusively. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > storage or preservation of crops > [noun] > stacking or ricking stacking1531 mowing1572 ricking1688 thack and rape1787 tippling1803 1787 R. Burns Poems (new ed.) 68 An thack and rape secure the toil-won crap. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. x. 281 He kens..wha feeds him and cleeds him, and keeps a tight thack and rape. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary* III. Gloss. 371 ‘As tight as thack and rape can make it’ is a proverbial phrase, signifying complete security. 1896 Speaker 3 Oct. 353/1 All is secured in the cornyard under ‘thack and raip’. 3. transferred. Covering (in quot. c1480 = skin). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > [noun] swardc725 fellOE hidea1000 leather1303 skina1325 rinda1413 swarth?c1450 swadc1460 thackc1480 skin coat1589 hackle1609 flesha1616 pelta1626 integument1664 barka1758 exoskeleton1839 c1480 (a1400) St. Vincent 276 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 267 Þane of þe frame he bad hym tak, þat hale had nothire lith na þak. Compounds C1. General attributive. Categories » thack-roof n. C2. thack-board n. a wooden roofing tile, a shingle. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > piece split off > thin for roofing shinglec1200 spoon1316 thack-board1354 shindle1585 shingle-board1589 1354 in J. T. Fowler Memorials Church SS. Peter & Wilfrid, Ripon (1888) III. 91 In ccc de thakbord' emp. pro stauro ecclesiæ. 1418 in J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices (1882) (modernized text) III. 402/1 Norwich, Thackboard. 1447–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1898) I. 186 In repar. molendini..in c^ma thakborde. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iv. 126 For fyr all cler Soyn throw the thak-burd [1487 St. John's Cambr. thik burd] can apper. thack-broach n. = thack-pin n., thack-prick n., broach n.¹ 5. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch prayeOE strabrod1335 broachc1440 thack-broach1573 thatch-prick1688 thack-prick1828 scollop1829 spit1833 stob1837 thack-nail1846 thack-peg1846 thack-pin1846 thatching-stake1879 thatch-hook1886 thatch-peg1897 1573 in A. Feuillerat Documents Office of Revels Queen Elizabeth (1908) 208 Hookes & eies with thackbroches. thack divot n. (also thack dowat) = thack turf n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > turf > [noun] > for building or constructing > for roofing thack divot1504 divotc1540 thack turf1576 1504 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1900) II. 424 For theking of divers houses with thak dowat. thack-gate n. Scottish see quot. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > gable > parts of skew1789 thack-gate1825 saddle stone1843 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. at Thak Thack-gate, the sloping edge of the gable-tops of a house, when the thatch covers them; in contradistinction from the Wind-skews that are raised higher than the thatch. thack house n. a thatched house. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > house of specific material or construction thatch-house1521 slate house1554 thack housec1600 frame house1627 log-house1662 straw1665 thatch1693 tin-house1798 fog house1799 leaf house1811 rock house1818 black house1819 blockhouse1821 white house1824 slab-and-bark house1826 brown house1845 brush house1854 soddy1877 hurdle-housea1879 bottle house1913 stucco1922 prefab1942 Portal house1944 Airey1945 yali1962 c1600 Hist. & Life James VI (1804) 209 He exposit..sum of his souldiors to sum thak housses besyd the West Port, in a windie nyght, and pat the same in fyre [not in ed. 1825]. 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. i A snug thack house, before the door a green. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words (at cited word) ‘Thack hoose’—a thatched house. thack-lead n. lead with which a roof is covered. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > metal > base metal > [noun] > lead > types of > for roofing leads1578 moss1703 thack-lead1827 1827 W. Tennant Papistry Storm'd 214 Capper and thack-lead aff were tane. thack-nail n. = thack-pin n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch prayeOE strabrod1335 broachc1440 thack-broach1573 thatch-prick1688 thack-prick1828 scollop1829 spit1833 stob1837 thack-nail1846 thack-peg1846 thack-pin1846 thatching-stake1879 thatch-hook1886 thatch-peg1897 1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) Thack-nail, a wooden pin or stob used in fastening thatch to the roof of a building. thack-peg n. = thack-pin n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch prayeOE strabrod1335 broachc1440 thack-broach1573 thatch-prick1688 thack-prick1828 scollop1829 spit1833 stob1837 thack-nail1846 thack-peg1846 thack-pin1846 thatching-stake1879 thatch-hook1886 thatch-peg1897 1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) Thack-peg, a wooden pin or stob used in fastening thatch to the roof of a building. thack-pin n. a sharpened pin or peg used in fastening the thatch on a roof. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch prayeOE strabrod1335 broachc1440 thack-broach1573 thatch-prick1688 thack-prick1828 scollop1829 spit1833 stob1837 thack-nail1846 thack-peg1846 thack-pin1846 thatching-stake1879 thatch-hook1886 thatch-peg1897 1846 W. E. Brockett J. T. Brockett's Gloss. North Country Words (ed. 3) Thack-pin, a wooden pin or stob used in fastening thatch to the roof of a building. thack-prick n. a sharpened wand or stick for the securing of thatch. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > pin for fastening down thatch prayeOE strabrod1335 broachc1440 thack-broach1573 thatch-prick1688 thack-prick1828 scollop1829 spit1833 stob1837 thack-nail1846 thack-peg1846 thack-pin1846 thatching-stake1879 thatch-hook1886 thatch-peg1897 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Thack-pricks, sharpened twigs for the securing of thatch. Categories » thack-prod n. = thack-prick n. thack-rape n. Scottish and northern dialect a rope (usually of twisted straw) used in fixing the thatch on a rick or cottage roof. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > [noun] > thatching equipment > rope for fastening down thatch simmon1616 straw rope1763 thack-rape1876 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Thack-reeaps, the cords for securing the thatch. 1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. Thack-rape. thack-stone n. a thin flat stone (e.g. Stonesfield slate) used for roofing. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > building stone > for roofing thack-stone1442 rigging stone1471 hilling-stone1660 tilestone1668 1442 Calverley Charters (1904) 253 j acre of soile..where he may gett and tak thakstone. 1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI, c. 26 (1816) IV. 627/1 To thaick þe same againe w^t Sklait, or skailȝee, leade, tyild, or Thackstone. 1880 A. I. Ritchie Church St. Baldred 37 The roof of the east end of Whitekirk Church is covered with thackstones. thack-tile n. [Old English þæctigile; compare German dachziegel] a roofing tile. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > clay compositions > baked clay > tile > [noun] > for roofing tilea725 thack-tilec725 long twelve1688 roof tile1936 c725 Corpus Gloss. (O.E.T.) 1043 Imbricibus, þæctigilum. 1477 Act 17 Edw. IV c. 4 Pleintile, autrement nosmer thaktile, roftile, ou crestile. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. ii. 4 Gallie and Thacke Tiles. c1800 S. Pegge Anecd. Eng. Lang. (1814) 279 In Yorkshire they call bricks wall tile, and tiles thack tile. thack turf n. a roofing turf or sod. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > turf > [noun] > for building or constructing > for roofing thack divot1504 divotc1540 thack turf1576 1576 in Reg. Mag. Sig. Scot. 1580. 20/1 Pro 108 oneribus focalium..et thak turffis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). thackv.¹ /θak/ Forms: Middle English–1500s (1800s dialect) thak, 1500s thacke, 1600s thake, Scottish thaick, 1500s– thack. Etymology: apparently partly (in form thake ) from Old English þacian, < þæc thack n. (so Middle High German, German dachen to roof, < dach ): compare Scots mak , tak , for make , take ; but thak , thack , may also have been a later formation < thack n. See also thatch v., theek v. Now dialect. 1. intransitive. To put thatch on houses; = thatch v. 5. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (intransitive)] > roof > thatch thacka1100 thatch1377 a1100 Gerefa in Anglia (1886) 9 261 Me mæcg in Agusto and Septembri and Octobri ðacian, ðecgan and fald weoxian. 1486 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 247 Paid to a thakker thakkyng on þe same barne. 1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xx. f. xxxvii He shall bothe thacke and daube at his owne cost. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xvi To mowe theyr stubble, other to thacke or to brenne. a1642 H. Best Farming & Memorandum Bks. (1984) 145 Thatchers allwayes beginne att the Eize [sc. eaves] and soe thake upwards till they come to the ridge. 2. transitive. To cover (a roof) or roof (a house) with thatch, formerly also with lead, tiles, etc.; = theek v. 1; spec. to cover the top of a rick with straw or other material so laid as to carry off the rain. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > build or provide with specific parts [verb (transitive)] > roof > thatch thatch1398 theek1399 thackc1440 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 490/1 Thakkyn howsys, sartatego,..sarcitego. 1474 Coventry Leet Bk. 389 Þat no maner man frohensfurth thak ne couer his house with strawe nor brome within this Cite. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 754/2 Sythe I can nat tyle my house, I must be fayne to thacke it. 1552 in W. Page Inventories Church Goods York, Durham & Northumberland (1897) 9 The churche thacked with leade. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. v. iv. 167/2 Houses and cottages..Which, as Diodorus Siculus saith were vsually thacked with reed. 1621 Sc. Acts Jas. VI, c. 26 (1816) IV. 627/1 To thaick þe same againe w^t Sklait, or skailȝee, leade, tyild, or Thackstone. c1700 J. Fraser Chron. Frasers (1905) 496 Tirr the Kirk to thack the quire. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Thack, v. to thatch. 1863 Mrs. Toogood Specim. Yorks. Dial. It will take two threave of strea to thack the hay-stack. Derivatives thacked adj. /θækt/ thatched. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > type of roof thatched1467 side?a1475 thacked1530 vaulted1552 shingleda1563 slated1611 unshingled1611 high-pitch1614 slate-pointed1648 killesed1649 hipped1663 pantiledc1672 overpitched1677 underpitched1677 low-pitcheda1684 pitched1773 theeked1792 peaked1797 shingle1810 thackless1810 choppered1818 wagon-headed1823 unlathed1854 break-back1856 shingly1857 saddleback1861 scaled1862 gambrelled1863 thatchy1864 weather-slated1870 thatchless1882 weather-tiled1887 monopitch1941 tile-roofed1962 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 699/1 This is a mete man to sytte on a thacked house to scarre away crowes. 1597 1st Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus i. i. 134 Some thacked cottage or some cuntrie hall. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus v. ii. 2091 True mirth we may enioy in thacked stall. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Thack'd, thatched. ˈthacking n. the action of thatching; also concrete the material used for the purpose, thatch. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching thacka900 wattlesc900 thatch1398 thackingc1440 litter1453 long straw1591 helm1669 thatching1671 straw1765 yelma1825 thatch-grass1884 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 490/1 Thakkynge, sartatectum. 1546 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1894) I. 168 The reparacion of the belles, thakkyng and other necessaries pertenyng to the sayd churche. 1613 G. Markham Eng. Husbandman: 1st Pt. i. v. 17 Whole Strawe Wheate..Husbandmen esteeme it so much for their thacking. c1680 H. Leigh in W. Macfarlane Geogr. Coll. Scotl. (1908) III. 252 The common and ordinary thacking is of a kind of Divet [= sod]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online September 2021). thackv.² /θak/ Etymology: Old English þaccian , apparently onomatopoeic. Compare thwack v. Obsolete exc. dialect. †1. a. transitive. To clap with the open hand or the like; to pat, slap lightly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > touch and feeling > touching > touching with the hand > touch or feel with the hand [verb (transitive)] > touch lightly thackc897 featherc1230 attouchc1480 palp1534 flatter1599 tat1607 touch1647 the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike lightly thackc897 tap?c1225 touchc1330 strike1488 tip1567 tit1589 tat1607 dib1609 bob1745 popc1817 percuss1827 rap1873 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xli. 303 Swa [swa] wildu hors, ðonne we h[ie] æresð gefangnu habbað, we hie ðacciað & straciað mid bradre hande. a900 K. Ælfred in Cockayne Shrine (1864) 185 Hine lyst bet þaccian and cyssan ðonne oðerne on bær lic. c1305 Land Cokayne 141 To þe maid dun hi fleeþ And geþ þe wench al abute, And þakkeþ al her white toute. c1386 G. Chaucer Friar's T. (Harl.) 261 This carter thakketh his hors vpon the croupe. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Miller's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 118 Whan Nicholas hadde doon thus euerydel And thakked [MS. Petworth twakked] hire vp on the lendes wel. †b. intransitive. To beat, to shower blows. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > use of bow and arrow > shoot arrows [verb (intransitive)] > shower arrows thack1480 1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliv. 299 Our men of armes and archyers that thakked on hem so thikke with arewes. †2. transitive. To clap (something) on or in a place. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > forcibly, firmly, or quickly thudc1000 throwa1250 pilt?c1250 casta1300 pusha1350 hurla1375 paltc1390 thrusta1400 thack1542 clap1559 to throw on1560 planch1575 protrude1638 shove1807 bung1825 shoot1833 slap1836 plunk1866 slam1870 spank1880 the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in contact with a surface > forcibly thack1542 1542 in State Papers Henry VIII (1849) IX. 42 But here he thakked on as many wordes, as he did bifore lawes in the other parte. 1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. E.3 The thorny thumps that Thought did thacke within my wofull breast. 3. dialect. To thwack v., beat, flog. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > strike with specific degree of force [verb (transitive)] > strike hard or vigorously dingc1300 knock1377 thwack1533 stoter1690 sock1699 whack1721 slog1824 whither1825 drub1849 thack1861 slug1862 dang1866 whomp1973 1861 R. Quinn Heather Lintie (1863) 22 (E.D.D.) Ye weel deserve a thackin' For tellin [etc.]. 1904 in Eng. Dial. Dict. [Norfolk] He rarely thacked th' old dicky (donkey). This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1912; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.c725v.¹a1100v.²c897
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