thatch
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /θætʃ/
thatch
- Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
- (West Indies) Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
- (by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
- 2008, Wallace Madding, The Country Club Killings: A Montana Story (page 21)
- An outgoing, story-telling Irishman from Butte, Montana, with his thatch of red hair and sandpapered face, Matt was the quintessential imp.
- 2008, Wallace Madding, The Country Club Killings: A Montana Story (page 21)
- (straw for covering roofs or stacks) haulm
thatch (thatches, present participle thatching; past and past participle thatched)
- To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.
- Portuguese: colmar
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