thatch
/θæt͡ʃ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.71 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
4
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.
Countable; Uncountable
name
A surname.
Example Sentences
- "Just over halfway up, we reached the Human settlement with its houses of stone and wood and thatch. This was a prewar place."
- "Mark Ladd, the venue’s assistant director of operations, notes that the fake greenery looks authentic: the height and colour of the blades are varied, with a few brown ones thrown in to emulate dead thatch."
- "Brown was a compact dark-skinned man in his forties, with strong features and a dense thatch of brown hair that sprang from his crown at an angle, though it had been brushed to either side of an indeterminate part."
- "An outgoing, story-telling Irishman from Butte, Montana, with his thatch of red hair and sandpapered face, Matt was the quintessential imp."
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.
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Derived Forms
dethatch
overthatch
thatchless
thatchlike
thatchwork
thatchy
underthatch
bethatch
rethatch
Thatch
thatched
thatcher