thacking

Verb (1)

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

1. (dialectal, transitive, obsolete except UK) To strike or thump (someone or something); to thwack.

Verb (2)

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

1. To cover a roof with thack.
   • 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...2023 [1871], John Stuart, Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen, Outlook Verlagsgesellschaft (Anatiposi Verlag), Books on Demand, page 365, 28 June 1716

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