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thack(1) (iou)



thack noun. Now Scot. & dial.

The roof of a house or building. OE-E16.
= THATCH noun 1a. OE.
b. The covering of straw with which the top of a haystack etc. is thatched. Freq. in thack and rape below. L18.
thack and rape the thatching of a haystack and the straw rope securing it.
Comb.: thack-board a wooden roofing-tile, a shingle; thack house a thatched house; thack-stone a thin flat stone used for roofing; thack-tile a roofing-tile.