thack

n. , vt.,vi. [苏格兰英语]；= thatch

发音

US /θæk/
其它
UK /θæk/

词形变化

thacks 复数 thacks 三单 thacking 现在分词 thacked 过去式 thacked 过去分词

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A stroke; a thwack.

  2. 1.

    The weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often specifically thatch.

    可数 不可数
v.
  1. 1.

    To strike or thump (someone or something); to thwack.

    方言 及物
  2. 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 haveing some houses thacked and covered as said is, had falne out in the Gallowgate lately; […] .

interj.
  1. 1.

    The sound of a thack.

    1860, Albany Fonblanque, Jun., Hector Mainwaring; or, A lease for lives, Ward and Lock, page 205, Thack ! thack ! thack ! the heavy hunting whip came down upon the head and shoulders of Charles Dudley.

词源

From Middle English thacce, from thakken (“to stroke”): see etymology 1.

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