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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

THATCH, n. [L. tego; Eng. deck.] Straw or other substance used to cover the roofs of buildings, or stacks of hay or grain, for securing them from rain, etc.
THATCH, v.t. To cover with straw, reeds or some similar substance; as, to thatch a house or a stable, or a stack of grain.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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, Thatch, Edward Thatch, Blackbeard]
4: a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) [syn: thatch, thatched roof] v
1: cover with thatch; "thatch the roofs"

Merriam Webster's

I. transitive verb Etymology: Middle English thecchen, from Old English theccan to cover; akin to Old High German decchen to cover, Latin tegere, Greek stegein to cover, stegos roof, Sanskrit sthagati he covers Date: 14th century to cover with or as if with thatch • thatcher noun II. noun Date: 14th century 1. a. a plant material (as straw) used as a sheltering cover especially of a house b. a sheltering cover (as a house roof) made of such material c. a mat of undecomposed plant material (as grass clippings) accumulated next to the soil in a grassy area (as a lawn) 2. something likened to the thatch of a house; especially the hair of one's head

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a roof-covering of straw, reeds, palm-leaves, or similar material. 2 colloq. the hair of the head. --v.tr. (also absol.) cover (a roof or a building) with thatch. Derivatives: thatcher n. Etymology: n. late collateral form of thack (now dial.) f. OE thæc, after v. f. OE theccan f. Gmc, assim. to thack

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(thatches) 1. A thatch or a thatch roof is a roof made from straw or reeds. They would live in a small house with a green door and a new thatch. N-COUNT 2. Thatch is straw or reeds used to make a roof. 3. You can refer to someone's hair as their thatch of hair, especially when it is very thick and untidy. Teddy ran thick fingers through his unruly thatch of hair. N-SING: oft N of n

Moby Thesaurus

board, brick, clapboard, crop, face, fleece, glass, glaze, head, head of hair, lath, locks, mane, mat, mop, paper, plank, revet, shag, shake, sheathe, shingle, shock, slate, stone, tile, tresses, veneer, wall in, wall up, wallpaper, weatherboard