Thacker

Now dial. [prob. representing an OE. *þæcere, f. þacian to thatch.] One who covers roofs with thatch; a thatcher.

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1420. Coventry Leet-bk., 21. Item, thakker, laborer, dawber, and palyer.

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1486. [see THACK v.¹].

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1573. Tusser, Husb. (1878), 86. Wheat and the rie … Such strawe some saue for thacker to haue.

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1590. Shuttleworths’ Acc. (Chetham Soc.), 62. A thacker at Tyngreve thackinge three dayes, and onne to serve him iij^s vj^d.

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1820. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 14/2. Hire two-three thackers to mend the thack on the roofs.

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