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Thatch
Definitions
- 1 A surname.
- 1 Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain. countable, uncountable
"Just over halfway up, we reached the Human settlement with its houses of stone and wood and thatch. This was a prewar place."
- 2 a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) wordnet
- 3 Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. Caribbean, countable, uncountable
- 4 hair resembling thatched roofing material wordnet
- 5 A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn. countable, uncountable
"Mark Ladd, the venue’s assistant director of operations, notes that the fake greenery looks authentic: the height and colour of the blades are varied, with a few brown ones thrown in to emulate dead thatch."
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- 6 plant stalks used as roofing material wordnet
- 7 Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair. broadly, countable, uncountable
"An outgoing, story-telling Irishman from Butte, Montana, with his thatch of red hair and sandpapered face, Matt was the quintessential imp."
- 1 To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.
- 2 cover with thatch wordnet
Etymology
Variant of thack, from Middle English thache, thach, from Old English þæc (“roof-covering”), from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“covering”), from (o-grade of) Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“cover”). Cognate with Icelandic þak, Dutch dak, German Dach, Norwegian tak, Swedish tak, Danish tag; and with Latin toga, Albanian thak (“awn, beard, pin, peg, tassel, fringe”), Lithuanian stogas (“roof”), Welsh to (“roof”). Related to Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof”) and στέγη (stégē, “roof”). See also English deech, deck.
From Middle English thacchen, from Old English þeċċan, þeċċean (“to cover”), from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną (“to cover”), from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“cover, covering”, noun) (see above). Cognate with West Frisian dekke, Dutch dekken, German decken, Danish tække, Swedish täcka. Alteration of vowel after Middle English perhaps due to the above noun.
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