thack

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Definition of thack in English English dictionary

the act of covering a roof with thack

the weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often thatch specifically

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.

See Thatch, Thatcher

Etymology

() Cognate with Danish tag (“roof”), German Dach (“roof”), Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”). Akin to Latin toga (“garment”) and Ancient Greek στέγος (stegos, “roof”)“” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog.

Tenses

thacking, thacked