Thatch

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  • 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • 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.
    • 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. A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
  • noun. the house sparrow.
  • transitive verb. To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance.
    • 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 or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
  • noun. A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
  • noun. A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
    • 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
    • Word Usage
    "The thatch is watertight and snug, though it must be replaced every few years."
    Form
    thatched  thatching  
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    buccaneer  coif  coiffure  hair style  hairdo  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rach  Vlach  attach  batch  brach  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    beard  brick  brushwood  clump  curl  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    board  brick  cadjan  clapboard  crop  
    verb-form
    thatched  thatches  thatching  
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