See thack in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"ref": "2023 [1871], John Stuart, Extracts from the Council Register of the Burgh of Aberdeen, Outlook Verlagsgesellschaft (Anatiposi Verlag), Books on Demand, page 365, 28 June 1716",
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