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Definition of Thacked
1. thack [v] - See also: thack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thacked
Literary usage of Thacked
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen by Aberdeen (Scotland) (1872)
"... and that a fatal! evidence thereof by haveing some houses thacked and covered
as said is, had fame out in the Gallowgate lately ; and for preventing of ..."
2. Geographical Collections Relating to Scotland Made by Walter Macfarlane by Walter Macfarlane (1908)
"There are but only four Houses here thacked with Slate. Here are two Castles to
wit the Castle of Scalloway built by Earle Patrick Stewart anno 1600 now ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1920)
"... (4) The pile fabrics of all degrees. class includes alt ordinary cloths of si
ness. The second class indudes known as thacked ..."
4. The Bookman (1899)
"... houses of the Highlands—not a dry-stone bigging but a rubble tenement, very
snugly thacked and windowed, and having a piece of kail-plot at its rear. ..."
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