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# thatch

noun (thatch — usually uncountable; a thatch); verb (thatch, thatches, thatched, thatching)

«thatch» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Thatch is a roof covering made of straw, reeds or similar dried plants laid thickly. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/#m1)
2. To thatch a roof is to cover it with thatch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/#m2)
3. (informal) A thatch of hair is a thick, untidy mass of hair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/#m3)

### In the lessons

In history lessons, many old cottages in England, Ireland and elsewhere had thatched roofs; people in Iron Age roundhouses used thatch too. A thatcher is a person who thatches roofs. Thatch keeps rain out because water runs down the steep straw.

### Examples

- The cottage had a roof of golden thatch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/#x1)
- The thatcher thatched the roof with reeds. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/#x2)
- Birds were nesting in the thatch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/#x3)
- Iron Age roundhouses were covered with thatch. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/#x4)
- He had a thick thatch of red hair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/#x5)
- A thatched roof needs replacing every few decades. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/#x6)

### Note

Adjective: thatched («a thatched cottage»). Person: thatcher. Ends in -tch; plural verb form «thatches».

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «thatch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatch/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«thatch» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/thatch.html) on Mova free.