What is "thatches"

Usage examples of "thatches".

The wutternuts were great thatches of gold fingerlings, and the donkey trees were pink.

That night, Harmakros had taken five hundred cavalry across the West Branch at Vryllos Gap, and raided western Nostor, firing thatches, running off cattle, and committing all the usual atrocities.

Not only was he still naked, but he'd had something bready to eat recently: I could tell from the crumbs scattered in his thatches of chest hair.

Dark shades were pushed up on to their brows under baseball caps or black thatches of hair.