Hypertext Webster Gateway: "thatch"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Thatch \Thatch\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thatched}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Thatching}.] [From {Thatch}, n.: cf. OE. thecchen, AS.
?eccean to cover.]
To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some
similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack
of grain.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Thatch \Thatch\, n. [OE. thak, AS. [thorn][ae]c a roof; akin to
[thorn]eccean to cover, D. dak a roof, dekken to cover, G.
dach a roof, decken 8cover, Icel. [thorn]ak a roof, Sw. tak,
Dan. tag, Lith. st[=o]gas, Ir. teagh a house, Gael. teach,
tigh, W. ty, L. tegere to cover, toga a toga, Gr. ?, ?, a
roof, ? to cover, Skr. sthag. Cf. {Deck}, {Integument},
{Tile}, {Toga}.]
1. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering
the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
2. (Bot.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of
palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
{Thatch sparrow}, the house sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
thatch
n 1: hair resembling thatched roofing material
2: plant stalks used as roofing material
3: an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the
Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) [syn: {Teach},
{Edward Teach}, {Thatch}, {Edward Thatch}, {Blackbeard}]
4: a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) [syn: {thatched
roof}]
v : cover with thatch; of roofs
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