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þæc

  • noun [ neuter ]
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þæc, es; n.
Wright's OE grammar
§345;
a roof
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  • Ðá geségon hí ðone hræfn ða glofe teran uppe on ánes húses þæce ... Wilfrið mid gyrde of ðæs húses hrófe ða glofe gerǽhte,

      Guthl. 11; Gdwin. 54, 16-22 : Ps. Th. 128, 4.
  • Gé þearfum forwyrndon, ðæt hí under eówrum þæce mósten in gebúgan,

      Exon. Th. 92, 6; Cri. 1504.
  • Se ðe on þæce siǽ

    qui in tecto,

      Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 24, 17.
  • Hé mycelne aad gesomnode on beámum and on ræftrum and on wágum and on watelum and on ðacum

    advexit plurimam congeriem trabium, tignorum, parietum, virgeorum, et tecti fenei,

      Bd. 3, 16; S. 542, 23.
  • Bodigaþ on þacum

    praedicate super tecta,

      Mt. Kmbl. Rush. 10, 27.
  • Nam ic wyrðe ðæt ðú gá under þacu mínne (

    sub tectum meum

    ),
      8, 8.
the material of which a roof is composed, thatch
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  • Ðæs húses hróf wæs mid ðæce beþæht

    culmen domus erat foeno tectum,

      Bd. 3, 10; S. 534, 32.
  • Ða tær ðæt hors ðæt ðæc of ðære cytan hrófe,

      Homl. Th. ii. 136, 16.
Etymology
[Chauc. thacke (in houses of thacke) thatch : Prompt. Parv. thak for howsys sartatectum : tectura, tegimen, Wrt. Voc. i. 237, col. 1. O. H. Ger. dah tectum, opertorium : Ger. dach : Icel. þak roof.]
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v. fen-þæc; þaca.
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  • þæc, n.