thatch
thach
- n hair resembling thatched roofing material
- n plant stalks used as roofing material
- n an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)
- n a house roof made with a plant material (as straw)
- v cover with thatch
thatch the roofs
- Packing winds of over 100 mph, the storm took out power lines and trees, and pulverized mud-and-thatch homes.
- When Roh Moo Hyun, the new President of South Korea, was an impoverished 13-year-old farm boy in Bonsan, a tiny village of clay-and-thatch huts, an older, much bigger bully .
- Sugary white sand gleams under the bright Yucatan sun, aquamarine water teems with tropical fish and lazy sea turtles, cold Mexican beer beckons beneath the shady thatch of palapas .