thatch
Plural: thatches
Noun
- 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)
- 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.
- Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.
Verb
Verb Forms: thatched, thatching, thatches
- To cover a roof with straw or similar plant material.
- cover with thatch
- "thatch the roofs"
- To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.
Examples
- With so many vowels, I struggled to THATCH together a high-scoring word on my Scrabble rack.
Origin / Etymology
Variant of thack, from Middle English thache, thach, from Old English þæc (“roof-covering”), from Proto-West Germanic *þak, from Proto-Germanic *þaką (“covering”), from (o-grade of) Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“cover”).
Cognate with Icelandic þak, Dutch dak, German Dach, Norwegian tak, Swedish tak, Danish tag; and with Latin toga, Albanian thak (“awn, beard, pin, peg, tassel, fringe”), Lithuanian stogas (“roof”), Welsh to (“roof”). Related to Ancient Greek τέγος (tégos, “roof”) and στέγη (stégē, “roof”). See also English deech, deck.
Synonyms
Blackbeard, Edward Teach, Edward Thatch, Teach, thatched roof, haulm
Scrabble Score: 14
thatch: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordthatch: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
thatch: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary