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THATCH
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
Synonyms:
thatch; thatched roof
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("thatch" is a kind of...):
roof (a protective covering that covers or forms the top of a building)
Derivation:
thatch (cover with thatch)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Hair resembling thatched roofing material
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("thatch" is a kind of...):
coif; coiffure; hair style; hairdo; hairstyle (the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair))
Sense 3
Meaning:
An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
Synonyms:
Blackbeard; Edward Teach; Edward Thatch; Teach; Thatch
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
buccaneer; pirate; sea robber; sea rover (someone who robs at sea or plunders the land from the sea without having a commission from any sovereign nation)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Plant stalks used as roofing material
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("thatch" is a kind of...):
roofing material (building material used in constructing roofs)
Derivation:
thatch (cover with thatch)
II. (verb)
Verb forms
Present simple: I / you / we / they thatch ... he / she / it thatches
Past simple: thatched
Past participle: thatched
-ing form: thatching
Sense 1
Meaning:
Cover with thatch
Example:
thatch the roofs
Classified under:
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging
Hypernyms (to "thatch" is one way to...):
roof (provide a building with a roof; cover a building with a roof)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s something
Derivation:
thatch (a house roof made with a plant material (as straw))
thatch (plant stalks used as roofing material)
thatcher (someone skilled in making a roof from plant stalks or foliage)
Context examples:
A wreath of blue smoke floated up through a hole in the thatch, and was the only sign of life in the place, save a great black hound which lay sleeping chained to the door-post.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Back among the groves he could see the high gable ends and thatched roofs of the franklins' houses, on whose fields these men found employment, or more often a thick dark column of smoke marked their position and hinted at the coarse plenty within.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A brown forest stream swirled down the centre of this clearing, with a rude bridge flung across it, and on the other side was a second field sloping up to a long, low-lying wooden house, with thatched roof and open squares for windows.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Yet why should they build and strive, when the first adventurer who passed would set torch to their thatch, and when their own feudal lord would wring from them with blows and curses the last fruits of their toil?
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The roof was poor and thatched; but in strange contrast to it there ran all along under the eaves a line of wooden shields, most gorgeously painted with chevron, bend, and saltire, and every heraldic device.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A brewer had built it early in the period craze, a decade before, and there was a story that he'd agreed to pay five years' taxes on all the neighboring cottages if the owners would have their roofs thatched with straw.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
