ˈthacker Now dial.
[prob. representing an OE. *þæcere, f. þacian to thatch.]
One who covers roofs with thatch; a thatcher.
| 1420 Coventry Leet-bk. 21 Item, thakker, laborer, dawber, and palyer. 1486 [see thack v.1 1]. 1573 Tusser Husb. (1878) 86 Wheat and the rie..Such strawe some saue for thacker to haue. 1590 Shuttleworths' Acc. (Chetham Soc.) 62 A thacker at Tyngreve thackinge three dayes, and onne to serve him iijs vj{supd}. 1820 Blackw. Mag. Oct. 14/2 Hire two-three thackers to mend the thack on the roofs. |