Definitions for thatches

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thatches thatch

Spelling: [thach]

IPA: /θætʃ/

Thatches is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 222 anagrams from letters in thatches (acehhstt).

Definitions for thatches

noun

1. Also, thatching. a material, as straw, rushes, leaves, or the like, used to cover roofs, grain stacks, etc.
2. a covering of such a material.
3. the leaves of various palms that are used for thatching.
4. something resembling thatch on a roof, especially thick hair covering the head:
5. Horticulture. a tightly bound layer of dead grass, including leaves, stems, and roots, that builds up on the soil surface at the base of the living grass of a lawn.
6. Edward, Teach, Edward.

verb (used with object)

1. to cover with or as if with thatch.
2. Horticulture. to remove thatch from (a lawn); dethatch.

Origin of thatches

before 900; (v.) Middle English thacchen, variant (with a from thak > dial. thack) of thecchen, Old English theccan to cover, hide; cognate with Dutch dekken (see deck

Examples for thatches

The same, the very same it is, save that the thatch has been renewed!

Ropes were flung over the thatch to keep the roof on in wind.

Henry has often been on the thatch of the barn and never got hurt.

Vehicles are still unusual, but homes now are made of brick and wood and have metal roofs instead of thatch.

His comic strip, thatch, appeared daily in more than 150 newspapers from 1994-1998.

He's taken the pike with him that lay in the thatch over our bed this year and more.

The frame, we know, was of timber, and the roof248 of thatch.

I've seen them set fire to the thatch of the widow and childless.

Always used of the gable loft, you know, and the wind above the thatch.

thatch well sodden with winter's rain does not blaze or crackle.