different between thack vs thrack

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: th?k, IPA^(key): /?æk/
• Rhymes: -æk

Etymology 1

From Middle English thakken (“to stroke”), from Old English þaccian (“to touch gently, stroke, tap”), from Proto-Germanic *þakw?n? (“to touch lightly”), from Proto-Indo-European *teh?g- (“to touch”), Proto-Indo-European *tag-, *ta?- (“to touch”). Cognate with Old Dutch þakol?n (“to stroke”), Old Norse þykkr (“a thwack, thump, blow”), Icelandic þjökka, þjaka (“to thwack, thump, beat”), Norwegian tjåka (“to strike, beat”), Latin tang? (“touch”). More at thwack, tangent.

Verb

thack (third-person singular simple present thacks, present participle thacking, simple past and past participle thacked)

1. (transitive) To strike; thump; thwack.

Etymology 2

From Middle English thacce, from thakken (“to stroke”). See above.

Noun

thack (plural thacks)

1. A stroke; a thwack.

Etymology 3

From Middle English thak, thakk, thakke, from Old English þæc, from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þak?, from Proto-Indo-European *teg-.

Cognate with Dutch dak, Low German Dack, Danish tag (“roof”), German Dach (“roof”), Old Norse þak (“thatch, roof”). Akin to Latin toga (“garment”) and Ancient Greek ?????? (stégos, “roof”). See also thatch and deck.

Noun

thack (countable and uncountable, plural thacks)

1. the weatherproof outer layer of a roof, often thatch specifically

Verb

thack (third-person singular simple present thacks, present participle thacking, simple past and past participle thacked)

1. To cover a roof with thack.

References

English

Etymology

From Middle English *threkken, thrucchen, from Old English þryccan (“to press, oppress, afflict”). More at thrutch.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æk/

Verb

thrack (third-person singular simple present thracks, present participle thracking, simple past and past participle thracked)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To load or burden.

   to thrack a man with property

   • But certainly we shall one day find , that the strait gate is too narrow for any man to come bustling in , thrack'd with great possessions, and greater corruptions

Anagrams

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