thakken
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Middle English
[edit]Verb
[edit]thakken
- To strike, to hit
- 1387–1400, Geoffrey Chaucer, “The Freres Tale”, in The Canterbury Tales, [Westminster: William Caxton, published 1478], →OCLC; republished in [William Thynne], editor, The Workes of Geffray Chaucer Newlye Printed, […], [London]: […] [Richard Grafton for] Iohn Reynes […], 1542, →OCLC, folio xliiii, recto, column 2:
- This carter thacked his horſe on yͤ croupe / And they begon to drawe and to ſtoupe
- This carter thwacked is horse on the croup / And they began to draw and to stoop