Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: thatch
IPA transcription: [θ'ætʃ]
noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: thatch
    Meaning: hair resembling thatched roofing material
verb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: thatch
    Meaning: cover with thatch; "thatch the roofs"
Usage examples
  • These young rabbits lived and grew, and burrowed and made nests in the thatch.
  • The thatch had fallen in, the walls were unplastered, and the door was off its hinges.
  • When he had done that, he thought the cow might perhaps fall off the thatch and break her legs or her neck.
  • Now their house lay close up against a steep down, and he thought if he laid a plank across to the thatch at the back he'd easily get the cow up.
  • "The lamps are dying in your homes, The fruits upon your bough; Even now your old thatch smoulders, Gurth, Now is the judgment of the earth, Now is the death-grip, now!"
  • Dolly was youngest of the family,--a thin, wiry child, tall for her years, with a brown bang lying like a thatch over a pair of bright inquisitive eyes, and a thick pig-tail braided down her back.
  • Then I came to a long thicket of these oaklike trees--live, or evergreen, oaks, I heard afterwards they should be called--which grew low along the sand like brambles, the boughs curiously twisted, the foliage compact, like thatch.