Thatch is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for THATCH in dictionary:

VERB:
• to cover with plant stalks or foliage
• cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material
• roof (a house) with reeds or straw
NOUN:
• a roof covering of straw, reeds, palm leaves, or a similar material
• straw or a similar material used for covering a roof
• a matted layer of dead stalks, moss, and other material in a lawn
• roofing material of reeds or straw
• Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
• A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
• 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.
• hair resembling thatched roofing material
• plant stalks used as roofing material
• an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
• a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
• a person's hair, especially when thick or unruly
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to cover with thatch (plant stalks or foliage)

Words related to THATCH

daych14 thack14 thatched17 thatcher16 thatchers17 thatches16 thatchier17 thatchiest18 thatching18 thatchless18 thatchy18 theek12 thetch14

Words that contain THATCH

thatcht15 thatchy18 dethatch17 nuthatch16 thatched17 thatcher16 thatches16 unthatch16 thatchers17 thatchier17 thatching18 dethatched20 dethatches19 nuthatches18 thatchiest18 thatchings19 thatchless18 unthatched19 unthatches18 dethatcher19 dethatching21 unthatching20 dethatchers20

How to use THATCH in a sentence

• So they shut the snake up again and carried it off to the house and, making a hole in the thatch, dropped it through.
• Before the wet season commenced I put a straw thatch on the roof of my hut, as before stated, and made my quarters as snug as possible.
• Tess, being left alone with the younger children, went first to the outhouse with the fortune-telling book, and stuffed it into the thatch.
• Even now, as sleep came to him, his childish spirit had left the circle of thatch roofs, and had gone on tremulous expeditions into the jungle.
• Perceiving how wet he was one of them drew a bottle from under the thatch, and pouring some of its contents into a wooden cup offered it to him.
• His dark eyes below his shaggy thatch of hair were fixed, deeply shining, upon Juliet.
• A few poles used to lean against the thatch, their tops rising above the ridge, and close by was a stack of thorn faggots.
• There were other rooms leading off it, but the stone partitions did not reach as high as the thatch and I could hear rustling, and some one snoring.
• Grasping handfuls of the coarse grass, the Commodore started to illustrate how the colonists bound thatch, doubtless from that very marsh, to make roofs for their flimsy cabins.
• These were of closely woven thatch, circular in outline, with a rounded dome, and two doors a couple of feet high opposite each other, and no other opening.
• After eating elsewhere, we made our way back to our lodging-place, a typical Zapotec hut, a single room, with dirt-floor, walls of canes or poles, and thatch of grass.
• The houses are rectangular, built of adobe brick and heavy thatch, with a thick comb of thatch riding the ridge.
• It may be assumed that the missing surface structure was circular, probably of brick, had a small door, and was roofed over with thatch or sod for insulation.
• Botfield Hall was a large, half-timbered farmhouse, with a gabled roof, part of which was made of thatch and the rest of tiles.
• Then lean poles against the crosspiece and finally thatch the roof with spruce, hemlock or other boughs and pile up boughs for the sides.
• We must hope these men of straw will serve as thatch to keep out the rain, and not be exposed to the assaults of a devouring flame.
• They heard, as the last burdened family filed through the gate, a crash of falling beams and thatch behind the walls.
• Higher and higher, till the devouring flame licked at the parched thatch of grass roof above.
• The driver looked round, and at last made up his mind that it was a small one-storied building, with straw thatch and dirty windows.
• The thatch of cottages has given it an opportunity.
• It took a long while, for the thatch was thick, but at last I was nearly through it.
• Groping about beneath its thatch, I struck my head and then a match.
• The bamboo houses, sheltered by trees and bushes, were roofed in the shape of an overturned boat with thatch and the single street was wide and clean.
• The house, long, low, rambling, roofed with thatch, stood at the end of a winding drive that was bordered on both sides by a blaze of rhododendron flowers.
• A closely woven mat of bamboo strips, or of bamboo beaten flat, covers each side of the roof, and on this the thatch is laid.
• Most of them were uncovered, but others had roofs, partial or complete, of thatch or boards or canvas.
• The door which opened into a low porch projecting from the thatch, was shaken with a vehemence that threatened some fearful catastrophe.
• The old woman and her daughter, too much terrified to remain quiet, came down from their resting-place, which, being close within the thatch, was most exposed to the tempest.
• So out we went, and the clattering latch Woke up the swallows under the thatch.
• The walls of the cottage were of mud, the partitions and roof of wood and thatch, so the whole place soon burned like a bonfire.

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