thatch
2
6.5
- noun
- /θætʃ/
:
paja
- Along this road were several small thatch huts and wooden sheds, with children looking and waving at the passersby.
Maybe this is a good Safeway to the thatch that's rose deck.
- Maybe this is a good Safeway to the thatch that's rose deck.
Examples
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The bareheaded man tilted his head to look through the hole in the thatch roof.
Fiction book (2000) -
Some of it was seeping through the roof where the thatch was worn.
Fiction book (2002) -
"But the roofs are thatch, and thatch will burn.
Fiction book (1993) -
The house was made of thatch, and there was an abstract feather ornament of red and blue hung near the door.
Fiction book (1997) -
The road skirts the town and intersects lagoons, where Malay houses of coconut thatch stand upon piles like ancient lake dwellings.
Blog text (22) -
The old cottage had a beautiful thatch roof made of straw.
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The villagers repaired the thatch on their homes after the storm damaged it.
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During our trip, we stayed in a hotel with traditional thatch roofing that kept the rooms cool.
Synonyms
79
1.0
Dried stalks of grain plants used for animal bedding and making things
1
3.7
A material people use to make a roof from straw or reeds
Straw or reeds used to cover roofs and keep them dry
A palm leaf used to make a roof or a shelter made from palm leaves
Compounds
- US
A small palm tree from southern Florida and the West Indies with leaves used to cover roofs
- US
A small palm tree from southern Florida and the West Indies with leaves used to make roofs
Surface Forms
Etymology
Thatch comes from an old English word þæc meaning 'roof', so it originally named the dried straw or reeds people used to cover and protect a roof.