Thesaurus: thatch
Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
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Definitions
- n. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
- n. A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
- n. 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.
- n. hair resembling thatched roofing material
- n. plant stalks used as roofing material
- n. a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
- v. cover with thatch
- 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.] 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.
- A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leavesof which are used for thatching. Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow.[Prov. Eng.]
- v:15/n:85 n. hair resembling thatched roofing material n. plant stalks used as roofing material n. a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) v. cover with thatch