hack
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Seemly in a' its bearins, he said, and as clean's a leek on our side, a' as ticht an' richt as legal thack and rape could mak it.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 7 by Various
“I don’t think house is afire yet, but it must catch the thack before long.”
From Dick o' the Fens A Tale of the Great East Swamp by Fenn, George Manville
It puts me i' mind o' the swallows as was under the thack last 'ear when they fust begun to sing low an' soft-like i' th' mornin'.
From Adam Bede by Eliot, George
I wad say that the door-sill wants men'in', to haud the snaw oot; an' the bit hoosie's sair in want o' new thack.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by MacDonald, George
Ye have riven the thack off seven cottar houses; look if your ain rooftree stand the faster.
From Thackeray by Trollope, Anthony
Vocabulary lists containing hack
The Watsons Go to Birmingham
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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
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