thwack

1. (transitive)Examples: "This carter thwacketh his horse upon the croup, / And they began to drawen and to stoop."; "Flaies lustily thwack, / least plough séede lack."; "Run, run, come you hither / Novv, take all my Cuſhions dovvn and thvvack them ſoundly, / After my Feaſt of Millers: for their Buttocks / Have left a peck of flovver in them, beat them carefully […]"Synonyms: thack, bethwack, bang, baste, batter, beat, belabor, blowtransitive

2. (transitive)Examples: "But let him ſvveare ſo, and he ſhall not ſtay, / VVee'l thvvack him hence vvith Diſtaffes."alsofigurativelytransitive

3. (transitive)Examples: "[W]hen hee comes to deſcribe the office of his imaginarie doctor [he] thvvacks fourteene Scriptures into the margent, vvhereof not any one hath any iuſt colour of inference to his purpoſe: […]"; "[W]ho vvould have thought a man could have thvvackt together ſo many incongruous ſimilitudes, had it not been to defend the motley i[n]coherence of a patch'd Miſſall?"transitive

4. (transitive)Examples: "3 [Servingman] VVhy here's he that vvas vvont to thvvacke our Generall, Caius Martius. / 1 VVhy do you ſay, thvvacke our Generall? / 3 I do not ſay thvvacke our Generall, but he vvas alvvayes good enough for him."; "[W]hat adventurous knight ever thought of the lady's terror, when he went to thwack giant, dragon, or magician, in her presence, and for her deliverance?"; "If we count three before the come of thee, thwacked thou art, and must go to the women."figurativelytransitive

5. (transitive)Examples: "And my lad Aſcanius with a Troian mantel adorning, / Weau'd woorks thwackt with honor, to her gifts this parlye ſhe lincketh."obsoletetransitive

6. (intransitive)Examples: "And see, that urchin, ho-ieroe! / His truant legs they sink from under, / And to the quaking sheet below [i.e., ice on which he has been skating], / Down thwacks he, with a thud like thunder!"intransitive