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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
thatch
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a thatched cottage (=with a roof made from dry straw)
▪ a row of small thatched cottages
a thatched roof (=made of dried straw)
▪ She lived in a pretty country cottage with a thatched roof.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And very good thatch it made.
▪ As she stepped out into the moonlight, two magpies landed on the thatch.
▪ As we talked, his quick fingers wove palm fronds into thatch like the roof of his hut.
▪ Dotty herself was in the garden, a straw hat of gigantic proportions crowning her untidy thatch of hair.
▪ It was cold, too, an icy wind sneaking in through the thatch and through gaps in the mud wall.
▪ Ridgery Butts was a slovenly, poor village, clay and thatch hovels clustered about its church and windmill.
▪ The cabin thatch would catch fire at any moment.
▪ The wood was faded and weather-worn, the thatch still thick but dark with age.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Thatch

Thatch \Thatch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thatched; p. pr. & vb. n. Thatching.] [From Thatch, n.: cf. OE. thecchen, AS. ?eccean to cover.] To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.

Thatch

Thatch \Thatch\, n. [OE. thak, AS. [thorn][ae]c a roof; akin to [thorn]eccean to cover, D. dak a roof, dekken to cover, G. dach a roof, decken 8cover, Icel. [thorn]ak a roof, Sw. tak, Dan. tag, Lith. st[=o]gas, Ir. teagh a house, Gael. teach, tigh, W. ty, L. tegere to cover, toga a toga, Gr. ?, ?, a roof, ? to cover, Skr. sthag. Cf. Deck, Integument, Tile, Toga.]

  1. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

  2. (Bot.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.

    Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
thatch

late 14c., thecchen, from Old English þeccan "to cover, cover over, conceal," in late Old English specifically "cover the roof of a house," related to þæc "roof, thatching material," from Proto-Germanic *thakan (cognates: Old Saxon thekkian, Old Norse þekja, Old Frisian thekka, Middle Dutch decken, Dutch dekken, Old High German decchen, German decken "to cover"), from PIE *(s)teg- (2) "to cover" (see stegosaurus).

thatch

Old English þæc "roof, thatch, cover of a building," from the source of thatch (v.). Compare Old Norse þak, Old Frisian thek, Swedish tak, Danish tag, Middle Dutch, Dutch dak "roof," Old High German dah "covering, cover," German Dach "roof."

Wiktionary
thatch

Etymology 1 n. 1 straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain. 2 A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. 3 A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn. Etymology 2

vb. To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.

WordNet
thatch

v. cover with thatch; "thatch the roofs"

thatch

  1. n. hair resembling thatched roofing material

  2. plant stalks used as roofing material

  3. an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) [syn: Teach, Edward Teach, Edward Thatch, Blackbeard]

  4. a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) [syn: thatched roof]

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Wikipedia
Thatch (comic strip)

Thatch was a comic strip created by Jeff Shesol. The strip began in Brown University's student newspaper The Brown Daily Herald. It was later picked up for syndication by Creators Syndicate in late 1994.

The title character was an everyman who struggled through life and politics. He had an alter-ego, Politically Correct Person (P.C. Person), who was a stereotype of sensitive liberals who fear offending people. Other characters were Tripp, Thatch's womanizing, obnoxious roommate; Kate, the editor for the college paper; and Sloane, who, as the cartoonist described in the strip's first and only book collection, a "heartless, shallow rich bitch."

In 1998, Shesol was offered a position as speech writer for the President of the United States Bill Clinton. Shesol agreed and ended the strip. The final Thatch appeared on April 11, 1998.

Thatch (disambiguation)

Thatching is the craft of covering a roof with dry vegetation.

Thatch may also refer to:

  • Thatch (comic strip)
  • Thatch (lawn), a layer of dead or dying material below the surface of a grass lawn
  • Thatch (One Piece) a minor character in Oda Eiichiro's manga One Piece
  • A nickname for Margaret Thatcher
  • A nickname for Geoffrey Boycott, English cricketer
Thatch (horse)

Thatch (1970–1983) was an American-bred, Irish-trained Thoroughbred racehorse and sire. In a racing career which lasted from spring 1972 until July 1973 he ran nine times and won seven races. As a two-year-old he won three of his four races and was rated one of the best Irish juveniles of the season. In the following year he finished fourth on soft ground in the 2000 Guineas but in the summer he showed the form which led to him being rated the best European horse of his generation, winning the St. James's Palace Stakes, the July Cup and the Sussex Stakes. He was then retired to stud where he had some success as a sire of winners.

Thatch (lawn)

In lawn care, thatch is a layer of organic matter that accumulates on a lawn around the base of the grass plants. Thatch is a combination of living and dead plant matter including crowns, stolons, rhizomes, and roots. Grass clippings do not generally contribute to thatch buildup as they can be easily broken down by soil microorganisms. Thatch is composed of about 25% lignin, a complex organic polymer that is highly resistant to decomposition.

Thatch buildup can be caused by several factors:

  • Certain grass species are especially prone to thatch production
  • Acidic soils may not be able to support sufficient populations of decomposing microorganisms
  • Certain fungicides can stimulate excessive root and rhizome growth
  • Application of insecticides may reduce earthworm activity, leading to decreased bioturbation
  • Over-application of nitrogen fertilizers can stimulate excess growth as well as contributing to soil acidity

A small amount of thatch may provide a beneficial insulating effect against fluctuations in temperature and moisture. However, excessive thatch can cause root problems and lawn mower difficulties. A dethatcher may be used to remove thatch from a lawn.

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Usage examples of "thatch".

The severely simple buildings of the shrine, with their raised floors, thatched roofs, and crossed end-rafters, show Shinto architecture at its best.

And a wooden cottage with a thatched roof and barkless tree trunks for a doorframe would certainly have offended his sensibilities.

The thatched roofs of the more primitive type of cabins looked bedrabbled, like the hair of a bather emerging from the lake, and the more substantial shelters were crowded with the overflow from these and from tents deserted by troops and patrols that had been almost drowned out.

The houses of the workpeople at Blarney are neat and trim, white and clean, and a repose to the eyes of beholders, sick of slouching thatch and bulging mud walls.

The bloomery roaring with fire, the clank of iron bars, smoke smutting the air, flecks of bright dust blowing into the thatch of the furnace-house how these raised my spirits!

Nevertheless, it were difficult otherwise to account for the faintly indicated slant of those little black eyes, the blurred modelling of the nose, the high cheekbones, and the thin thatch of coarse black hair which was plastered down with abundant brilliantine above that mask of pallid features.

It seemed silly that the natives should exist in huts, raising only a milpa, or small patch of corn cleared in the native jungle, and giving that no more cultivation than it required, and rarely doing anything else in the line of work except gather a few thick maguey leaves to repair a hut after wind blew the thatching away.

Built of the timber of breadfruit and toa, and thatched beautifully with the russet-coloured leaves of the pandanus palm, oblong in shape, they bore an almost exact resemblance, inside and out, to the dwellings in Tahiti and Tubuai.

Some two thousand canes of these raufara, as they were called, each of them holding about forty pandanus leaves, were needed for the thatching of each dwelling.

There were at least two acres of hastily erected tukuLs, made of sapling frames covered with a range of material from thatch to flattened paraffin cans.

The higgledly-piggledy line of the village houses with their uneven roof lines, crooked chimneys, thatch or slate roofs and pargeted or brick frontages, every detail deeply familiar, stood serenely unchanged.

The thatched piers were crowded with turbaned Mussulmen in their bajus or short jackets, full white trousers, and red sarongs or plaitless kilts--the boys dressed in silver fig-leaves and silver bangles only.

The straw was used to repair the thatched roofs and to restuff the mattresses so that for a few blissful days our beds were free of lice and fleas, though that blessing did not last long.

Round about children stared, too, close to the shade of thatched rooves from the comers of which hung the stones that, anchored them in place.

The wall was mostly used to keep the moose out of vegetable patches and the bears out of the garbage, and was of no use whatsoever keeping out the salamanders, who crawled over it and into the thatched rooves, starting nasty fires.