thack

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İngilizce - İngilizce
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
thack

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    Etimoloji

    () 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.

    Zamanlar

    thacking, thacked