Thatch

What do we mean by thatch?

Plant stalks or foliage, such as reeds or palm fronds, used for roofing. noun

Something, such as a thick growth of hair on the head, that resembles thatch. noun

Dead turf, as on a lawn. noun

To cover with or as if with thatch. transitive verb

To cover with or as with thatch.

To thatch houses.

The covering of a roof or the like, made of straw or rushes, and in tropical countries of cocoanut-leaves and other long and thick-growing palmleaves. noun

One of the palms Calyptrogyne Swartzii and Copernicia tectorum, whose leaves are used in thatching. See also specific names below, and thatch-palm. noun

To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance. transitive verb

Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain. noun

A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. noun

The house sparrow. noun

To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc. verb

Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain. noun

A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching. noun

A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn. noun

An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) noun

Cover with thatch verb

Plant stalks used as roofing material noun

A house roof made with a plant material (as straw) noun

Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.

A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.

(by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.

Words that are spelled similarly to thatch:
thatch, hatch, thach, tatch.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word thatch:
roofing, thatched, mowing, roofs, mein, cay, shingles, stilts, reeds, waugh, corrugated, palm, straw, casper, tiled, mats, bamboo, roof, hut, tiles, tile, buildup, woven, grass, whitehall, lawn, tko, bout, toe, turf, weaving, slate, pub, adobe, ruin, cottage, pulled, mounds, mud, hats, submission, nests, banana, dwelling, karate, coconut, rope, bricks, burnt, bark, layer, pits, stakes, houses, decorative, devon, clay, colt, gable, stems, walls, soil, tin, timber, wooden, inn, barn, fight, brick, poles, citing, materials, organic, pounds, wood, leaves, cool, smoke, shelter, caribbean, laid, voiced, stone, dense, thick, furniture, virgin, faced, teach, covering, endemic, farming, hair, posts, homes, lighting, stones, rooms, tree, dry.

Words that rhyme with thatch:
catch, match, scratch, patch, dispatch, hatch, snatch, latch, batch, attach, detach, mismatch, mache, natch, tache, brach, potlatch, ratch, klatch, slatch, rache, rach, scatch, rematch, booby hatch, lache, overmatch, cratch, reattach, trache, vache, gatch, crache, thach, smatch, gach, fache, lach, bache, love match, tatch, kach, fair catch, fratch, stach, vlach, sparring match, drach, escape hatch, test match, krach, flach, friction match, shoulder patch, safety catch, boxing match, slow match, shoestring catch, hach, safety match, glottal catch, cumberbatch, night latch, vegetable patch, bratsch, tkach, matsch, wrestling match, grzywacz, unattach, whitlatch, bier patch, latsch, tatsch, thermopatch.

Adjectives that are often used to describe thatch:
thick, old, heavy, dry, leaf, brown, reed, palm, dark, black, humble, rough, ancient, ragged, yellow, white, unruly, rotten, gray, red, golden, deep, excellent, grey, silvery, overhanging, bamboo, dense, loose, sodden, fresh, green, wild, straw, thin, traditional, leaky, excessive, wet, shaggy, coarse, broken, blond, decayed, grass, mossy, light, damp, soft, grown, curly, durable, torn, conical, flaming, warm, neat, tule, attap, pubic, snowy, excess, close, homely, impenetrable, lowly, smooth, tangled, and, native, tousled, rude, picturesque, despicable, rustic, lighted, outer.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective thatch:
roof, huts, houses, hut, roofs, grass, house, eaves, building, dwellings, work, structures, buildings, construction, cottages, shelter, structure, shields, eves, shelters, reeds, church, village, villages, poles, homes, roofing, than, top, cabanas, moss, home, incident, frame, hovels, wall, hackle, walls, straw, cabins, rods, workers, hovel, rope, palm, makers, timber.

Consonant match to thatch:
thach.

Words that sound like thatch:
thatch, thach, that, than, thatcher, thal, thatched, thanh, thack, thak, thatchy, match, catch, hatch, mache, yatch, tache, cach, tach, sach, hach, sache, hache, tatch, kach, fach, fache, matsch, tkach, thewy, then, the, these, thee, thick, they, thighs, thang, thigh, thaw, theo, tha, thieve, thi, thane, thea, thaught, thia, tham, thaws, thew, thay, thad, thies, thes, thie, thao, thic, theis, theat, thet, thicke, thall, thien, thain, thein, thel, theia, thag, thas, thei, thees, theyll, thiel, thayne, theyve, thau, thews, thell, theiss, thave, thiele, theave, theel, theil, thess, theine, theow, the uk, the who, the us, thae, thap, theile, thegn, thaa, theke, the a, thec, thele.