Thatch

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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.
  • v. To cover with or as if with thatch.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • v. To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Verb Form
    thatched    thatches    thatching   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    sea rover    buccaneer    sea robber    pirate    roof    roofing material    hairdo    hairstyle    hair style    coiffure   
    Cross Reference
    Form
    thatched    thatching   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    haulm    cadjan    reed    grass   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Rach    Vlach    attach    batch    brach    catch    detach    dispatch    drach    gatch   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    shingle    tuft    mop    brushwood    mat    mane    clump    plaster    straw    moss