Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Plant stalks or foliage, such as reeds or palm fronds, used for roofing.
- noun Something, such as a thick growth of hair on the head, that resembles thatch.
- noun Dead turf, as on a lawn.
- transitive verb To cover with or as if with thatch.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To cover with or as with thatch.
- To thatch houses.
- noun The covering of a roof or the like, made of straw or rushes, and in tropical countries of cocoanut-leaves and other long and thick-growing palmleaves.
- noun One of the palms Calyptrogyne Swartzii and Copernicia tectorum, whose leaves are used in thatching. See also specific names below, and thatch-palm.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
- noun (Bot.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- noun [Prov. Eng.] the house sparrow.
- transitive verb To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc. - noun
Straw ,rushes , or the like, used for making orcovering theroofs of buildings, or ofstacks ofhay orgrain . - noun A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- noun A
buildup of cutgrass ,stolons or other material on the soil in alawn .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
- verb cover with thatch
- noun plant stalks used as roofing material
- noun a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
- noun hair resembling thatched roofing material
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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The thatch is watertight and snug, though it must be replaced every few years.
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The thatch is watertight and snug, though it must be replaced every few years.
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"Aren't fizzles -- that is what you called the thatch over her eyebrows; isn't it?
On the Firing Line Hamilton Brock Fuller 1905
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He listened attentively when I suggested a roof of palm thatch, which is much less likely to be damaged and more easily repaired.
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He listened attentively when I suggested a roof of palm thatch, which is much less likely to be damaged and more easily repaired.
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He listened attentively when I suggested a roof of palm thatch, which is much less likely to be damaged and more easily repaired.
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To his horror he saw that the thatch was aflame, the rotten pillars were catching fire one by one, and the rafters were burning like tinder.
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It was a painful operation, for his thatch was a stubborn mat of crisp waves and knotty tangles to his plumy tail and down to his feathered toes.
Greyfriars Bobby Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson 1902
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The walls were made thick, rough, and strong; the interstices were matted and daubed with clay from the bed of the rivulet; the thatch was a sedge obtained from the lake; and the floor of earth was strewed with the leaves of the sweet-smelling rhododendron.
The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains Mayne Reid 1850
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No moss ever grows on the thatch, which is brown, with white ridges.
Letters from the Cape Lucie Duff Gordon 1845
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