Meaning

noun hair resembling thatched roofing material

noun plant stalks used as roofing material

noun an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)

originVariant of thack, from Middle English thache, thach, from Old English þæc (“roof-covering”), from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“covering”), from (o-grade of) Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“cover”). Cognate with Icelandic þak, Dutch dak, German Dach, Norwegian tak, Swedish tak, Danish tag; and with Latin toga, Albanian thak (“awn, beard, pin, peg, tassel, fringe”),…

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