Noun: thack
| Singular | thack |
| Plural | thacks |
Sample Sentences
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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. [1952, L.F. Salzman, Building in England, page 223:]
Nouns inflected like thack
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English thacce, from thakken (“to stroke”): see etymology 1. See: Middle English Nouns '
thacce'.
Verbs referencing "thack"
Danish Nouns
tag, German Nouns
Dach.