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[ noun ] a hard blow with a flat object
Used in print (Helen Hooven Santmyer, "There Were Fences"...)Cows were kept in backyard barns , boys were hired to drive them to and from the pasture on the edge of town , and familiar to the ear , morning and evening , were the boys ' coaxing voices , the thud of hooves , and the thwack of a stick on cowhide . |
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