thakked

Middle English

Etymology

See thack

Verb

thakked

1. Slapped, struck

   He thakked hire aboute the lendes weel (Chaucer)

   He slapped her well on the loins

   • 14th century, Chaucer, The Friar's Tale, Petworth Manuscript.

     This Carter thrakked his hors on the croupe

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   • 15th century?, Percy Folio, "Agincourte Battell"

     And oure kyng with his meyne and with his men of armes and archiers that thakked on theym so thykke with arrowes, and leyd on with strokes, and oure kyng withe his own hondes faughte manly.

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Adjective

thakked

1. Covered, thatched
   • 1551, York House Book, quoted in: A. G. Dickens, Reformation Studies, →ISBN.

     within this citie have ben alate pulled downe by the parochians of the same cherches and melted and the same cherches thakked ageyne with tyle to the great defacyng of the hole citie and slaunder of my Lord Maiour and his brederne.

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   • 1538-43, Leland, Itinerary, quoted in Thomas Allen, The History of the County of England, p.163 →OCLC.

     The towne is all thakked and redid, and a broke cumeth by it.

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   • Leland, Itinerary, quoted in George Gordon Coulton, Five Centuries of Religion', vol. 2, page 218 →OCLC

     A Preste of Alhalowes shot a shaft with fier into the Toppe of that Part of St Marye the Townes-men usid; and this Partiition chauncing at that Tyme to be thakked yn, the Rofe was sette a fier and consequently al the hole Chirch