[f. the verb.] A vigorous stroke with a stick or the like; a whack.
1587. T. Hughes, etc., Misfort. Arthur, IV. ii. Boystrous bangs wit a thumping thwacks fall thicke.
1654. Gayton, Pleas. Notes, III. ii. 76. A company of lusty shoulder-thumpers, who discharg’d the mutuall thwacks so stoutly, that they made a noise, as if they were beating of hemp.
1663. Butler, Hud., I. II. 795. But Talgol first with hardy Thwack Twice bruis’d his head, and twice his back.
1704. Swift, T. Tub, xi. (1709), 131. Noble Captain, lend a reasonable Thwack … with that cane of yours.
1832. W. Irving, Alhambra (1851), 250. Bestowing a hearty thwack with a cudgel on the flanks of his donkey.
1859. G. Meredith, R. Feverel, xxiii. Sounding a thwack on his knee.
