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vb. To thatch again, especially something that has previously been thatched.
Usage examples of "rethatch".
Cottages that should be rethatched in autumn against the coming winter had not been thatched in years.
The roof is rethatched and the walls rewoven every third or fourth year.
For years, the stables had just been rethatched on top of the old thatch.
Waddo the obnoxious first-man had fallen off the roof while he was rethatching it, and had broken his ankle.
Waddo the obnoxious fir, man had fallen off the roof while he was rethatching it, and had brok his ankle.
That sunny morn after their celebration, when Eglantine was rethatching the weaknesses of the roof, someone cried of ships.
The palisaded complex of timber forts and chambers sprawling along the green ridge was badly in need of limewash and rethatching.
The old slave church on the estate had been rethatched and restored for the occasion, and the bougainvillaea blossom of exactly the shade that Holly had chosen for her dress was flown down from the eastern Transvaal in the company aircraft to decorate it.
The roof is rethatched and the walls rewoven every third or fourth year.
There's a corner of the roof that needs rethatching before the next rain.