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# thatcher

noun (a thatcher, thatchers); proper noun (Thatcher — a surname, a name)

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

## Everyday

1. A thatcher is a person whose job is to make roofs from straw, reeds or similar dry plants. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatcher/#m1)
2. (a name) Thatcher is an English surname; Margaret Thatcher was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990, the first woman in that job. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatcher/#m2)

### In the lessons

In history and country life it names an old craft still used on cottages in England and Ireland. As a name it appears in UK history lessons about modern Britain. Phrases: master thatcher, a thatched roof.

### Examples

- The thatcher climbed onto the cottage roof with bundles of reed. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatcher/#x1)
- A good thatcher can make a roof that lasts thirty years. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatcher/#x2)
- Thatchers use long wooden pegs called spars. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatcher/#x3)
- Margaret Thatcher was the first woman Prime Minister of the UK. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatcher/#x4)
- Our village still has a thatcher who learned the craft from his father. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatcher/#x5)
- The thatcher's ladder leaned against the wall. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thatcher/#x6)

### Note

Countable: one thatcher, two thatchers. Related: thatch (the roof material, and the verb), thatched. As a surname it takes a capital letter. People still argue strongly about Margaret Thatcher's politics; history lessons give different views.

## On Mova

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