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  3  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thwack  \Thwack\  (thw[a^]k),  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Thwacked};  p. 
  pr  &  vb  n.  {Thwacking}.]  [Cf.  OE  thakken  to  stroke,  AS 
  [thorn]accian,  E.  whack.] 
  1.  To  strike  with  something  flat  or  heavy;  to  bang,  or 
  thrash:  to  thump.  ``A  distant  thwacking  sound.''  --W. 
  Irving. 
 
  2.  To  fill  to  overflow.  [Obs.]  --Stanyhurst. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Thwack  \Thwack\,  n. 
  A  heavy  blow  with  something  flat  or  heavy;  a  thump. 
 
  With  many  a  stiff  thwack,  many  a  bang,  Hard  crab  tree 
  and  old  iron  rang.  --Hudibras. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  thwack 
  n  :  a  hard  blow  with  a  flat  object 
  v  :  deliver  a  hard  blow  to  "The  teacher  smacked  the  student  who 
  had  misbehaved"  [syn:  {smack}] 




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