Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. Plant stalks or foliage, such as reeds or palm fronds, used for roofing.
- n. Something, such as a thick growth of hair on the head, that resembles thatch.
- n. Dead turf, as on a lawn.
- transitive v. To cover with or as if with thatch.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
- n. A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- n. A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
- v. To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
- n. A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- transitive v. To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To cover with or as with thatch.
- To thatch houses.
- n. 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.
- n. One of the palms Calyptrogyne Swartzii and Copernicia tectorum, whose leaves are used in thatching. See also specific names below, and thatch-palm.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
- v. cover with thatch
- n. plant stalks used as roofing material
- n. a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
- n. hair resembling thatched roofing material
Etymologies
Examples
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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?
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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.
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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.
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No moss ever grows on the thatch, which is brown, with white ridges.
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However it is worth remembering that owning a thatched real estate has its own disadvantages, the value of replacing the thatch should be a concern although not a major one, these project costs are often exaggerated.
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Nicknamed ‘A Floating World’ and chosen over five other shortlisted entries, this design from Adam Khan Architects uses buildings made of low embodied energy materials such as thatch, willow and timber, drawing on the heritage of wetland dwellings and embodying a sustainable agenda.
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Buildings were made of stone, including the roofs, for any other material, such as thatch, would have long ago burned away.
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