Definition of thatch in English:

thatch

noun θatʃθætʃ

mass noun

1A roof covering of straw, reeds, palm leaves, or a similar material.
茅草屋顶
the rain drummed noisily on the thatch above her head
Example sentencesExamples
- Rain seeped through the thatch and dripped into cups, bowls, kettles, and buckets in no less than a dozen places.
- She said: ‘We were getting a bit anxious because the smoke was coming out of the bedroom window and getting a bit close to the thatch.’
- Mr High estimated that internal repairs and having the thatch replaced would probably cost £40,000 or more.
- The walls will last indefinitely, but the thatch will have to be replaced in about 30 years.
- High on the roof of the store, weaving a string of Norfolk reeds into the thatch, Billy Betsford looked down at the old man.
- With a similar thought, I mended the thatch on the eaves of the hut, patched up the gaps in the fence, and at the beginning of the fourth month, the first month of summer, moved in for what I thought would be no more than a brief stay.
- Beneath the thatch we squat in the dust, clink our bottles and drink.
- Our cowshed has seen some repairs, the thatch is re-laid annually and old worm-infested wooden poles and frames are replaced.
- But I could not find woven coconut fronds in enough numbers for the thatch of the theatre.
- The downpour continued all night, but nary a drop violated my palm thatch.
- Using a technique developed by Wiltshire Fire Brigade, the firefighters cut a number of breaks in the thatch to contain the blaze.
- The thatch is still damp from the rains, but we shall watch it for a while, in case it hides a spark.
- I needn't tell you what would happen if the thatch had caught fire.
- The straw thatch was not two feet above her face.
- He had pulled up outside to take a call on his mobile phone, and seen the smoke and flames in the thatch.
- The roof is constructed of wood, but has a thick thatch as well for insulation.
- But the flames quickly spread along the underside of the thatch and in less than two hours the whole building was gutted.
- But it's OK, they passed special rules to let us have thatch in the original style, so long as we put the sprinklers in.
- Over the eight-foot security fence we see a man fixing the thatch on a new hut in an adjacent field.
- Underneath the thatch it was a roaring blaze but on top it was smouldering.
- Although a reed roof can last a lifetime, the ridges of the thatch need to be replaced every 10 years.
Synonyms
snarl, mass, mat, cluster, knot, mesh, disorder, web
1. 1.1 Straw or a similar material used for covering a roof.
  （作为盖屋顶材料的）茅草（或类似材料）
  good thatch is difficult to obtain
  Example sentencesExamples
  Before long, mass-produced and processed building materials, such as Bedfordshire brick and Welsh slate, began to displace local stones and thatch.
  Each lodge has luxury en suite accommodation in tents the size of bungalows, built on stilts under a roof of thatch, surrounded by an elephant-proof stockade.
  Some were roofed with lead sheets, and some with thatch, and some with a mixture of both.
  Huts are either circular or oblong with wattle (woven-stick) walls, plastered outside and inside with mud, and roofed with thatch.
  In the south, which is warmer, most country folk live in houses made of straw, thatch, or palm leaves.
  Traditional building materials of mud (for walls) and thatch (for roofs) are being replaced by cement and tiles.
  Construction materials include sticks and logs, earth, and thatch.
  Opposite the entrance, across the courtyard, is a roughly circular room, which may have had a conical roof of turf or thatch.
  Roofing materials were thatch, turf, timber, tiles, slates, and lead.
  In 1956, he married and built a two-storey house with heavy thatch on the roof.
  Most of the homes of poor rural people are made of local materials, with floors of packed earth, walls of adobe or wattle and daub, and roofs of clay tiles or thatch.
  Lines of postholes on the axis of each building held wooden posts supporting a pitched roof, most probably of thatch.
  At a time when fire-fighting equipment was virtually non-existent and buildings constructed of timber and thatch, town fires were a constant hazard.
  Until the 1970s, houses throughout the group were open rectangular structures supported by pandanus posts and roofed with pandanus thatch.
  In the north, houses are rectangular and made from wooden planks or palm thatch.
  The camp includes a group of tents, a temple, tin-roofed sheds and small temporary houses made of reclaimed timber and coconut thatch.
  On top of this, they demonstrate just how clean and genuinely cosy homes built of stone, lime, mud and thatch can be.
  In small towns and villages, new houses tend to be built from concrete blocks with metal roofs, but many are constructed from mud bricks and roofed with thatch.
  These buildings could be substantial, consisting normally of a low wall of stone with a roof of thatch, skins, or other organic material supported by timbers.
  Bryony sighed as she hauled a bunch of thatch from the lower beams of the roof and began to spread the bundles across the upper framework.
  They are made of wood or bamboo, often with walls of bamboo matting, and roofs of thatch or corrugated tin.
  They supplied their own thatch from barley grown on the island and the thatcher would stay on the island till the job was done.
2. 1.2informal in singular A person's hair, especially when thick or unruly.
  〈非正式〉浓密而不整齐的头发
  a young man with a thatch of untidy blond hair
  Example sentencesExamples
  At 50, Sachs has a boyish thatch of brown hair and an expression of implacable earnestness.
  He's tanned, fit, and blessed with a full thatch of light-brown hair.
  The stocky Dundonian has grown a thatch of snowy white hair and a matching beard for his role as a crazy psychiatrist in the film version of the international bestseller Running With Scissors.
  He is a somewhat shambling but attractive denim-clad man in his late 50s, with a thatch of pewter-coloured hair, an engaging smile and a permanently amused gaze.
  He's got a thatch of floppy brown hair that gives him a certain boyish look, but he's gray at the temples, and there are little fans of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.
  He was a jovial-looking man with a broad smile, playful hazel eyes and a thatch of silver hair.
  His astoundingly ugly head, with a pair of pale eyes and a slit-mouth under a conical red thatch, was thrown forward above his barrel chest, making his long face seem both inquisitive and moronic.
  Andy raked a hand through his thick thatch of brown hair and said, ‘Don't worry about the hot dog, okay?’
  The youngster let out a yelp and clutched at the crown of his thatch of tangled, sandy hair.
  It was then that he noticed a thatch of blonde hair behind the couch.
  He had brown eyes and a thatch of thick, shaggy brown hair.
  I gave his thick thatch of apparently genuine hair a tug to make sure.
  Synonyms
  mass, mane, mop, head, crop, bush, cloud, frizz, fuzz, foam, curls, tangle, chaos, cascade, quiff, halo
3. 1.3 A matted layer of dead stalks, moss, and other material in a lawn.
  （草坪上的）腐殖土
  scarify the lawn to remove debris and thatch
  Example sentencesExamples
  Use a rake to remove winter debris, break up small amounts of thatch and lift the grass leaves and weed stems.
  If, after the first cut or two, your lawn looks a bit yellow and patchy, it is probably full of thatch - dead grass and moss - that will give the lawn a spongy feel.
  Inorganic chemical fertilizers encourage the accumulation of thatch in the top layer of the soil.
  Besides raking leaves up, you want to rake deep into the soil to remove thatch.
  That will start a mulching action that breaks down thatch.
  Heavy thatch may require a second application a week later.
  They contain microorganisms that help to decompose any layers of thatch present.
  Scarifying is done in autumn to remove debris and to prevent the build-up of thatch.
  Most warm-season grasses develop thatch, a spongelike layer of roots, runners, and grass blades just above the soil surface.
  All grass forms a layer of dead plant material, known as thatch, between the grass blades and the soil.
  Aerate lawns at least once a season to help prevent the build-up of thatch.
  It's amazing how much thatch you can rake out of a lawn if you do it every two or three years.
  When thatch gets too thick it prevents water and nutrients from penetrating to the soil and grass roots.
  If conditions are dry enough, lawns will benefit from a good raking to remove debris, thatch and moss.
  Rent a power rake and coring machine to remove thatch and improve air and water circulation around roots of Bermuda grass.
  Rake to maintain a clean lawn, doing an especially thorough job at the end of the growing season to reduce thatch.
  However, if the lawn has a thick layer of thatch, grass clippings won't decompose as efficiently.
  It's a good time to scarify lawns and remove the dead grass called thatch.
  On a dry day, scarify the lawn to remove unwanted thatch and then aerate and top-dress any badly drained areas.
  Aerate in the fall to help break up compacted soil and remove excess thatch, allowing fertilizer nutrients, sunlight and air to infiltrate the soil.

verb θatʃθætʃ

[with object]

Cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material.
用茅草（或类似材料）覆盖（屋顶，建筑物）
they have constructed the walls and are now thatching the roof
Example sentencesExamples
- Houses are usually rectangular and have mud walls and a gabled roof thatched with straw.
- Yellow and red wooden canoes drift across to Ambu and Lilisiana, two thatched villages on stilts at opposite ends of the bay.
- Where we live is so picturesque that even the bus shelters are thatched.
- In the top left, one sees a small group of three Irish houses - low, thatched buildings.
- The roof was thatched, like all the other houses in the village.
- Here we've got some reeds as well, which are mainly used for thatching the roofs.
- The walls and floors were made of stone, and the roof was thatched.
- The roof was thatched and a small stone chimney cheerfully puffed out bits of dark smoke.
- The grain was used for feeding the livestock and the straw for thatching the roof.
- The final, and most exposed of these cottages is unique, being the last thatched one on this coast.
- Although it is illegal to have thatched roofs on schools, the practice is widespread and largely ignored.
- The homes at the turn of the century were all built from fieldstones and had thatched roofs.
- Another concrete house nestled amongst the more traditional black and white thatched houses.
- Like most farms, its roof was thatched, and it wasn't very special in any other way either.
- They can spend the night in Harome, in another beautifully thatched building just a short walk down the village main street.
- The walls in these villages are plastered with cement or mud and most of the houses have thatched roofs.
- He said more than 200 thatched homes had been burnt down, with scores of people fleeing the area.
- Old farmhouses lie abandoned throughout the country while thatched cottages are rare.
- The roofs were thatched, turfed or covered in wood shingles, depending on available local resources.
- There were roofs that needed to be thatched and walls and doors that needed to be mended.

Derivatives

thatcher

noun ˈθatʃəˈθætʃər

Stephen is a thatcher by trade and is busy maintaining an ancient art which was handed down over the generations.
Example sentencesExamples
- Across Yorkshire as a whole, 155 additional construction workers are needed with the necessary skills to maintain historic buildings - 48 carpenters, 45 slate and tile roofers, 36 stonemasons and 26 thatchers.
- They supplied their own thatch from barley grown on the island and the thatcher would stay on the island till the job was done.
- He was a thatcher and thatched roofs in the white suburbs of Johannesburg.
- Demonstrations by rural craftsmen will feature the work of the thatcher, stone mason, wheelwright, blacksmith, bodger, cooper, cane and rush weaver and stick maker.
- It all began when she met another thatcher in Limerick in the early 1990s when she began to help him with his work.

Origin

Old English theccan 'cover', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dekken and German decken.

Rhymes

attach, batch, catch, crosshatch, detach, hatch, latch, match, mismatch, natch, outmatch, patch, scratch

Definition of thatch in US English:

thatch

nounθætʃTHaCH

1A roof covering of straw, reeds, palm leaves, or a similar material.
茅草屋顶
Example sentencesExamples
- But I could not find woven coconut fronds in enough numbers for the thatch of the theatre.
- Beneath the thatch we squat in the dust, clink our bottles and drink.
- He had pulled up outside to take a call on his mobile phone, and seen the smoke and flames in the thatch.
- The roof is constructed of wood, but has a thick thatch as well for insulation.
- Over the eight-foot security fence we see a man fixing the thatch on a new hut in an adjacent field.
- The straw thatch was not two feet above her face.
- Rain seeped through the thatch and dripped into cups, bowls, kettles, and buckets in no less than a dozen places.
- But it's OK, they passed special rules to let us have thatch in the original style, so long as we put the sprinklers in.
- Underneath the thatch it was a roaring blaze but on top it was smouldering.
- The thatch is still damp from the rains, but we shall watch it for a while, in case it hides a spark.
- High on the roof of the store, weaving a string of Norfolk reeds into the thatch, Billy Betsford looked down at the old man.
- Although a reed roof can last a lifetime, the ridges of the thatch need to be replaced every 10 years.
- With a similar thought, I mended the thatch on the eaves of the hut, patched up the gaps in the fence, and at the beginning of the fourth month, the first month of summer, moved in for what I thought would be no more than a brief stay.
- But the flames quickly spread along the underside of the thatch and in less than two hours the whole building was gutted.
- Using a technique developed by Wiltshire Fire Brigade, the firefighters cut a number of breaks in the thatch to contain the blaze.
- Our cowshed has seen some repairs, the thatch is re-laid annually and old worm-infested wooden poles and frames are replaced.
- She said: ‘We were getting a bit anxious because the smoke was coming out of the bedroom window and getting a bit close to the thatch.’
- The downpour continued all night, but nary a drop violated my palm thatch.
- Mr High estimated that internal repairs and having the thatch replaced would probably cost £40,000 or more.
- I needn't tell you what would happen if the thatch had caught fire.
- The walls will last indefinitely, but the thatch will have to be replaced in about 30 years.
Synonyms
snarl, mass, mat, cluster, knot, mesh, disorder, web
1. 1.1 Straw or a similar material used for a roof covering.
  （作为盖屋顶材料的）茅草（或类似材料）
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most of the homes of poor rural people are made of local materials, with floors of packed earth, walls of adobe or wattle and daub, and roofs of clay tiles or thatch.
  In small towns and villages, new houses tend to be built from concrete blocks with metal roofs, but many are constructed from mud bricks and roofed with thatch.
  In 1956, he married and built a two-storey house with heavy thatch on the roof.
  The camp includes a group of tents, a temple, tin-roofed sheds and small temporary houses made of reclaimed timber and coconut thatch.
  They are made of wood or bamboo, often with walls of bamboo matting, and roofs of thatch or corrugated tin.
  Some were roofed with lead sheets, and some with thatch, and some with a mixture of both.
  In the south, which is warmer, most country folk live in houses made of straw, thatch, or palm leaves.
  Roofing materials were thatch, turf, timber, tiles, slates, and lead.
  Construction materials include sticks and logs, earth, and thatch.
  Until the 1970s, houses throughout the group were open rectangular structures supported by pandanus posts and roofed with pandanus thatch.
  Each lodge has luxury en suite accommodation in tents the size of bungalows, built on stilts under a roof of thatch, surrounded by an elephant-proof stockade.
  Before long, mass-produced and processed building materials, such as Bedfordshire brick and Welsh slate, began to displace local stones and thatch.
  Lines of postholes on the axis of each building held wooden posts supporting a pitched roof, most probably of thatch.
  They supplied their own thatch from barley grown on the island and the thatcher would stay on the island till the job was done.
  Bryony sighed as she hauled a bunch of thatch from the lower beams of the roof and began to spread the bundles across the upper framework.
  On top of this, they demonstrate just how clean and genuinely cosy homes built of stone, lime, mud and thatch can be.
  Opposite the entrance, across the courtyard, is a roughly circular room, which may have had a conical roof of turf or thatch.
  At a time when fire-fighting equipment was virtually non-existent and buildings constructed of timber and thatch, town fires were a constant hazard.
  Huts are either circular or oblong with wattle (woven-stick) walls, plastered outside and inside with mud, and roofed with thatch.
  In the north, houses are rectangular and made from wooden planks or palm thatch.
  These buildings could be substantial, consisting normally of a low wall of stone with a roof of thatch, skins, or other organic material supported by timbers.
  Traditional building materials of mud (for walls) and thatch (for roofs) are being replaced by cement and tiles.
2. 1.2informal The hair on a person's head, especially if thick or unruly.
  〈非正式〉浓密而不整齐的头发
  Example sentencesExamples
  At 50, Sachs has a boyish thatch of brown hair and an expression of implacable earnestness.
  I gave his thick thatch of apparently genuine hair a tug to make sure.
  The stocky Dundonian has grown a thatch of snowy white hair and a matching beard for his role as a crazy psychiatrist in the film version of the international bestseller Running With Scissors.
  He's got a thatch of floppy brown hair that gives him a certain boyish look, but he's gray at the temples, and there are little fans of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes.
  He was a jovial-looking man with a broad smile, playful hazel eyes and a thatch of silver hair.
  Andy raked a hand through his thick thatch of brown hair and said, ‘Don't worry about the hot dog, okay?’
  His astoundingly ugly head, with a pair of pale eyes and a slit-mouth under a conical red thatch, was thrown forward above his barrel chest, making his long face seem both inquisitive and moronic.
  He had brown eyes and a thatch of thick, shaggy brown hair.
  It was then that he noticed a thatch of blonde hair behind the couch.
  The youngster let out a yelp and clutched at the crown of his thatch of tangled, sandy hair.
  He is a somewhat shambling but attractive denim-clad man in his late 50s, with a thatch of pewter-coloured hair, an engaging smile and a permanently amused gaze.
  He's tanned, fit, and blessed with a full thatch of light-brown hair.
  Synonyms
  mass, mane, mop, head, crop, bush, cloud, frizz, fuzz, foam, curls, tangle, chaos, cascade, quiff, halo
3. 1.3 A matted layer of dead stalks, moss, and other material in a lawn.
  （草坪上的）腐殖土
  Example sentencesExamples
  Most warm-season grasses develop thatch, a spongelike layer of roots, runners, and grass blades just above the soil surface.
  Rent a power rake and coring machine to remove thatch and improve air and water circulation around roots of Bermuda grass.
  That will start a mulching action that breaks down thatch.
  Use a rake to remove winter debris, break up small amounts of thatch and lift the grass leaves and weed stems.
  If conditions are dry enough, lawns will benefit from a good raking to remove debris, thatch and moss.
  When thatch gets too thick it prevents water and nutrients from penetrating to the soil and grass roots.
  Aerate lawns at least once a season to help prevent the build-up of thatch.
  Besides raking leaves up, you want to rake deep into the soil to remove thatch.
  If, after the first cut or two, your lawn looks a bit yellow and patchy, it is probably full of thatch - dead grass and moss - that will give the lawn a spongy feel.
  They contain microorganisms that help to decompose any layers of thatch present.
  On a dry day, scarify the lawn to remove unwanted thatch and then aerate and top-dress any badly drained areas.
  All grass forms a layer of dead plant material, known as thatch, between the grass blades and the soil.
  Aerate in the fall to help break up compacted soil and remove excess thatch, allowing fertilizer nutrients, sunlight and air to infiltrate the soil.
  It's a good time to scarify lawns and remove the dead grass called thatch.
  Heavy thatch may require a second application a week later.
  However, if the lawn has a thick layer of thatch, grass clippings won't decompose as efficiently.
  Rake to maintain a clean lawn, doing an especially thorough job at the end of the growing season to reduce thatch.
  Scarifying is done in autumn to remove debris and to prevent the build-up of thatch.
  It's amazing how much thatch you can rake out of a lawn if you do it every two or three years.
  Inorganic chemical fertilizers encourage the accumulation of thatch in the top layer of the soil.

verbθætʃTHaCH

[with object]

Cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material.
用茅草（或类似材料）覆盖（屋顶，建筑物）
they have constructed the walls and are now thatching the roof
Example sentencesExamples
- They can spend the night in Harome, in another beautifully thatched building just a short walk down the village main street.
- Although it is illegal to have thatched roofs on schools, the practice is widespread and largely ignored.
- He said more than 200 thatched homes had been burnt down, with scores of people fleeing the area.
- The grain was used for feeding the livestock and the straw for thatching the roof.
- The roof was thatched, like all the other houses in the village.
- Where we live is so picturesque that even the bus shelters are thatched.
- In the top left, one sees a small group of three Irish houses - low, thatched buildings.
- Yellow and red wooden canoes drift across to Ambu and Lilisiana, two thatched villages on stilts at opposite ends of the bay.
- The homes at the turn of the century were all built from fieldstones and had thatched roofs.
- The roof was thatched and a small stone chimney cheerfully puffed out bits of dark smoke.
- Like most farms, its roof was thatched, and it wasn't very special in any other way either.
- Here we've got some reeds as well, which are mainly used for thatching the roofs.
- Old farmhouses lie abandoned throughout the country while thatched cottages are rare.
- The final, and most exposed of these cottages is unique, being the last thatched one on this coast.
- The roofs were thatched, turfed or covered in wood shingles, depending on available local resources.
- Houses are usually rectangular and have mud walls and a gabled roof thatched with straw.
- The walls in these villages are plastered with cement or mud and most of the houses have thatched roofs.
- There were roofs that needed to be thatched and walls and doors that needed to be mended.
- Another concrete house nestled amongst the more traditional black and white thatched houses.
- The walls and floors were made of stone, and the roof was thatched.

Origin

Old English theccan ‘cover’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dekken and German decken.

词汇	thatch
释义	Definition of thatch in English: thatch noun θatʃθætʃ mass noun 1A roof covering of straw, reeds, palm leaves, or a similar material. 茅草屋顶 the rain drummed noisily on the thatch above her head Example sentencesExamples Rain seeped through the thatch and dripped into cups, bowls, kettles, and buckets in no less than a dozen places. She said: ‘We were getting a bit anxious because the smoke was coming out of the bedroom window and getting a bit close to the thatch.’ Mr High estimated that internal repairs and having the thatch replaced would probably cost £40,000 or more. The walls will last indefinitely, but the thatch will have to be replaced in about 30 years. High on the roof of the store, weaving a string of Norfolk reeds into the thatch, Billy Betsford looked down at the old man. With a similar thought, I mended the thatch on the eaves of the hut, patched up the gaps in the fence, and at the beginning of the fourth month, the first month of summer, moved in for what I thought would be no more than a brief stay. Beneath the thatch we squat in the dust, clink our bottles and drink. Our cowshed has seen some repairs, the thatch is re-laid annually and old worm-infested wooden poles and frames are replaced. But I could not find woven coconut fronds in enough numbers for the thatch of the theatre. The downpour continued all night, but nary a drop violated my palm thatch. Using a technique developed by Wiltshire Fire Brigade, the firefighters cut a number of breaks in the thatch to contain the blaze. The thatch is still damp from the rains, but we shall watch it for a while, in case it hides a spark. I needn't tell you what would happen if the thatch had caught fire. The straw thatch was not two feet above her face. He had pulled up outside to take a call on his mobile phone, and seen the smoke and flames in the thatch. The roof is constructed of wood, but has a thick thatch as well for insulation. But the flames quickly spread along the underside of the thatch and in less than two hours the whole building was gutted. But it's OK, they passed special rules to let us have thatch in the original style, so long as we put the sprinklers in. Over the eight-foot security fence we see a man fixing the thatch on a new hut in an adjacent field. Underneath the thatch it was a roaring blaze but on top it was smouldering. Although a reed roof can last a lifetime, the ridges of the thatch need to be replaced every 10 years. Synonyms snarl, mass, mat, cluster, knot, mesh, disorder, web 1.1 Straw or a similar material used for covering a roof. （作为盖屋顶材料的）茅草（或类似材料） good thatch is difficult to obtain Example sentencesExamples Before long, mass-produced and processed building materials, such as Bedfordshire brick and Welsh slate, began to displace local stones and thatch. Each lodge has luxury en suite accommodation in tents the size of bungalows, built on stilts under a roof of thatch, surrounded by an elephant-proof stockade. Some were roofed with lead sheets, and some with thatch, and some with a mixture of both. Huts are either circular or oblong with wattle (woven-stick) walls, plastered outside and inside with mud, and roofed with thatch. In the south, which is warmer, most country folk live in houses made of straw, thatch, or palm leaves. Traditional building materials of mud (for walls) and thatch (for roofs) are being replaced by cement and tiles. Construction materials include sticks and logs, earth, and thatch. Opposite the entrance, across the courtyard, is a roughly circular room, which may have had a conical roof of turf or thatch. Roofing materials were thatch, turf, timber, tiles, slates, and lead. In 1956, he married and built a two-storey house with heavy thatch on the roof. Most of the homes of poor rural people are made of local materials, with floors of packed earth, walls of adobe or wattle and daub, and roofs of clay tiles or thatch. Lines of postholes on the axis of each building held wooden posts supporting a pitched roof, most probably of thatch. At a time when fire-fighting equipment was virtually non-existent and buildings constructed of timber and thatch, town fires were a constant hazard. Until the 1970s, houses throughout the group were open rectangular structures supported by pandanus posts and roofed with pandanus thatch. In the north, houses are rectangular and made from wooden planks or palm thatch. The camp includes a group of tents, a temple, tin-roofed sheds and small temporary houses made of reclaimed timber and coconut thatch. On top of this, they demonstrate just how clean and genuinely cosy homes built of stone, lime, mud and thatch can be. In small towns and villages, new houses tend to be built from concrete blocks with metal roofs, but many are constructed from mud bricks and roofed with thatch. These buildings could be substantial, consisting normally of a low wall of stone with a roof of thatch, skins, or other organic material supported by timbers. Bryony sighed as she hauled a bunch of thatch from the lower beams of the roof and began to spread the bundles across the upper framework. They are made of wood or bamboo, often with walls of bamboo matting, and roofs of thatch or corrugated tin. They supplied their own thatch from barley grown on the island and the thatcher would stay on the island till the job was done. 1.2informal in singular A person's hair, especially when thick or unruly. 〈非正式〉浓密而不整齐的头发 a young man with a thatch of untidy blond hair Example sentencesExamples At 50, Sachs has a boyish thatch of brown hair and an expression of implacable earnestness. He's tanned, fit, and blessed with a full thatch of light-brown hair. The stocky Dundonian has grown a thatch of snowy white hair and a matching beard for his role as a crazy psychiatrist in the film version of the international bestseller Running With Scissors. He is a somewhat shambling but attractive denim-clad man in his late 50s, with a thatch of pewter-coloured hair, an engaging smile and a permanently amused gaze. He's got a thatch of floppy brown hair that gives him a certain boyish look, but he's gray at the temples, and there are little fans of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. He was a jovial-looking man with a broad smile, playful hazel eyes and a thatch of silver hair. His astoundingly ugly head, with a pair of pale eyes and a slit-mouth under a conical red thatch, was thrown forward above his barrel chest, making his long face seem both inquisitive and moronic. Andy raked a hand through his thick thatch of brown hair and said, ‘Don't worry about the hot dog, okay?’ The youngster let out a yelp and clutched at the crown of his thatch of tangled, sandy hair. It was then that he noticed a thatch of blonde hair behind the couch. He had brown eyes and a thatch of thick, shaggy brown hair. I gave his thick thatch of apparently genuine hair a tug to make sure. Synonyms mass, mane, mop, head, crop, bush, cloud, frizz, fuzz, foam, curls, tangle, chaos, cascade, quiff, halo 1.3 A matted layer of dead stalks, moss, and other material in a lawn. （草坪上的）腐殖土 scarify the lawn to remove debris and thatch Example sentencesExamples Use a rake to remove winter debris, break up small amounts of thatch and lift the grass leaves and weed stems. If, after the first cut or two, your lawn looks a bit yellow and patchy, it is probably full of thatch - dead grass and moss - that will give the lawn a spongy feel. Inorganic chemical fertilizers encourage the accumulation of thatch in the top layer of the soil. Besides raking leaves up, you want to rake deep into the soil to remove thatch. That will start a mulching action that breaks down thatch. Heavy thatch may require a second application a week later. They contain microorganisms that help to decompose any layers of thatch present. Scarifying is done in autumn to remove debris and to prevent the build-up of thatch. Most warm-season grasses develop thatch, a spongelike layer of roots, runners, and grass blades just above the soil surface. All grass forms a layer of dead plant material, known as thatch, between the grass blades and the soil. Aerate lawns at least once a season to help prevent the build-up of thatch. It's amazing how much thatch you can rake out of a lawn if you do it every two or three years. When thatch gets too thick it prevents water and nutrients from penetrating to the soil and grass roots. If conditions are dry enough, lawns will benefit from a good raking to remove debris, thatch and moss. Rent a power rake and coring machine to remove thatch and improve air and water circulation around roots of Bermuda grass. Rake to maintain a clean lawn, doing an especially thorough job at the end of the growing season to reduce thatch. However, if the lawn has a thick layer of thatch, grass clippings won't decompose as efficiently. It's a good time to scarify lawns and remove the dead grass called thatch. On a dry day, scarify the lawn to remove unwanted thatch and then aerate and top-dress any badly drained areas. Aerate in the fall to help break up compacted soil and remove excess thatch, allowing fertilizer nutrients, sunlight and air to infiltrate the soil. verb θatʃθætʃ [with object] Cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material. 用茅草（或类似材料）覆盖（屋顶，建筑物） they have constructed the walls and are now thatching the roof Example sentencesExamples Houses are usually rectangular and have mud walls and a gabled roof thatched with straw. Yellow and red wooden canoes drift across to Ambu and Lilisiana, two thatched villages on stilts at opposite ends of the bay. Where we live is so picturesque that even the bus shelters are thatched. In the top left, one sees a small group of three Irish houses - low, thatched buildings. The roof was thatched, like all the other houses in the village. Here we've got some reeds as well, which are mainly used for thatching the roofs. The walls and floors were made of stone, and the roof was thatched. The roof was thatched and a small stone chimney cheerfully puffed out bits of dark smoke. The grain was used for feeding the livestock and the straw for thatching the roof. The final, and most exposed of these cottages is unique, being the last thatched one on this coast. Although it is illegal to have thatched roofs on schools, the practice is widespread and largely ignored. The homes at the turn of the century were all built from fieldstones and had thatched roofs. Another concrete house nestled amongst the more traditional black and white thatched houses. Like most farms, its roof was thatched, and it wasn't very special in any other way either. They can spend the night in Harome, in another beautifully thatched building just a short walk down the village main street. The walls in these villages are plastered with cement or mud and most of the houses have thatched roofs. He said more than 200 thatched homes had been burnt down, with scores of people fleeing the area. Old farmhouses lie abandoned throughout the country while thatched cottages are rare. The roofs were thatched, turfed or covered in wood shingles, depending on available local resources. There were roofs that needed to be thatched and walls and doors that needed to be mended. Derivatives thatcher noun ˈθatʃəˈθætʃər Stephen is a thatcher by trade and is busy maintaining an ancient art which was handed down over the generations. Example sentencesExamples Across Yorkshire as a whole, 155 additional construction workers are needed with the necessary skills to maintain historic buildings - 48 carpenters, 45 slate and tile roofers, 36 stonemasons and 26 thatchers. They supplied their own thatch from barley grown on the island and the thatcher would stay on the island till the job was done. He was a thatcher and thatched roofs in the white suburbs of Johannesburg. Demonstrations by rural craftsmen will feature the work of the thatcher, stone mason, wheelwright, blacksmith, bodger, cooper, cane and rush weaver and stick maker. It all began when she met another thatcher in Limerick in the early 1990s when she began to help him with his work. Origin Old English theccan 'cover', of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dekken and German decken. Rhymes attach, batch, catch, crosshatch, detach, hatch, latch, match, mismatch, natch, outmatch, patch, scratch Definition of thatch in US English: thatch nounθætʃTHaCH 1A roof covering of straw, reeds, palm leaves, or a similar material. 茅草屋顶 Example sentencesExamples But I could not find woven coconut fronds in enough numbers for the thatch of the theatre. Beneath the thatch we squat in the dust, clink our bottles and drink. He had pulled up outside to take a call on his mobile phone, and seen the smoke and flames in the thatch. The roof is constructed of wood, but has a thick thatch as well for insulation. Over the eight-foot security fence we see a man fixing the thatch on a new hut in an adjacent field. The straw thatch was not two feet above her face. Rain seeped through the thatch and dripped into cups, bowls, kettles, and buckets in no less than a dozen places. But it's OK, they passed special rules to let us have thatch in the original style, so long as we put the sprinklers in. Underneath the thatch it was a roaring blaze but on top it was smouldering. The thatch is still damp from the rains, but we shall watch it for a while, in case it hides a spark. High on the roof of the store, weaving a string of Norfolk reeds into the thatch, Billy Betsford looked down at the old man. Although a reed roof can last a lifetime, the ridges of the thatch need to be replaced every 10 years. With a similar thought, I mended the thatch on the eaves of the hut, patched up the gaps in the fence, and at the beginning of the fourth month, the first month of summer, moved in for what I thought would be no more than a brief stay. But the flames quickly spread along the underside of the thatch and in less than two hours the whole building was gutted. Using a technique developed by Wiltshire Fire Brigade, the firefighters cut a number of breaks in the thatch to contain the blaze. Our cowshed has seen some repairs, the thatch is re-laid annually and old worm-infested wooden poles and frames are replaced. She said: ‘We were getting a bit anxious because the smoke was coming out of the bedroom window and getting a bit close to the thatch.’ The downpour continued all night, but nary a drop violated my palm thatch. Mr High estimated that internal repairs and having the thatch replaced would probably cost £40,000 or more. I needn't tell you what would happen if the thatch had caught fire. The walls will last indefinitely, but the thatch will have to be replaced in about 30 years. Synonyms snarl, mass, mat, cluster, knot, mesh, disorder, web 1.1 Straw or a similar material used for a roof covering. （作为盖屋顶材料的）茅草（或类似材料） Example sentencesExamples Most of the homes of poor rural people are made of local materials, with floors of packed earth, walls of adobe or wattle and daub, and roofs of clay tiles or thatch. In small towns and villages, new houses tend to be built from concrete blocks with metal roofs, but many are constructed from mud bricks and roofed with thatch. In 1956, he married and built a two-storey house with heavy thatch on the roof. The camp includes a group of tents, a temple, tin-roofed sheds and small temporary houses made of reclaimed timber and coconut thatch. They are made of wood or bamboo, often with walls of bamboo matting, and roofs of thatch or corrugated tin. Some were roofed with lead sheets, and some with thatch, and some with a mixture of both. In the south, which is warmer, most country folk live in houses made of straw, thatch, or palm leaves. Roofing materials were thatch, turf, timber, tiles, slates, and lead. Construction materials include sticks and logs, earth, and thatch. Until the 1970s, houses throughout the group were open rectangular structures supported by pandanus posts and roofed with pandanus thatch. Each lodge has luxury en suite accommodation in tents the size of bungalows, built on stilts under a roof of thatch, surrounded by an elephant-proof stockade. Before long, mass-produced and processed building materials, such as Bedfordshire brick and Welsh slate, began to displace local stones and thatch. Lines of postholes on the axis of each building held wooden posts supporting a pitched roof, most probably of thatch. They supplied their own thatch from barley grown on the island and the thatcher would stay on the island till the job was done. Bryony sighed as she hauled a bunch of thatch from the lower beams of the roof and began to spread the bundles across the upper framework. On top of this, they demonstrate just how clean and genuinely cosy homes built of stone, lime, mud and thatch can be. Opposite the entrance, across the courtyard, is a roughly circular room, which may have had a conical roof of turf or thatch. At a time when fire-fighting equipment was virtually non-existent and buildings constructed of timber and thatch, town fires were a constant hazard. Huts are either circular or oblong with wattle (woven-stick) walls, plastered outside and inside with mud, and roofed with thatch. In the north, houses are rectangular and made from wooden planks or palm thatch. These buildings could be substantial, consisting normally of a low wall of stone with a roof of thatch, skins, or other organic material supported by timbers. Traditional building materials of mud (for walls) and thatch (for roofs) are being replaced by cement and tiles. 1.2informal The hair on a person's head, especially if thick or unruly. 〈非正式〉浓密而不整齐的头发 Example sentencesExamples At 50, Sachs has a boyish thatch of brown hair and an expression of implacable earnestness. I gave his thick thatch of apparently genuine hair a tug to make sure. The stocky Dundonian has grown a thatch of snowy white hair and a matching beard for his role as a crazy psychiatrist in the film version of the international bestseller Running With Scissors. He's got a thatch of floppy brown hair that gives him a certain boyish look, but he's gray at the temples, and there are little fans of wrinkles at the corners of his eyes. He was a jovial-looking man with a broad smile, playful hazel eyes and a thatch of silver hair. Andy raked a hand through his thick thatch of brown hair and said, ‘Don't worry about the hot dog, okay?’ His astoundingly ugly head, with a pair of pale eyes and a slit-mouth under a conical red thatch, was thrown forward above his barrel chest, making his long face seem both inquisitive and moronic. He had brown eyes and a thatch of thick, shaggy brown hair. It was then that he noticed a thatch of blonde hair behind the couch. The youngster let out a yelp and clutched at the crown of his thatch of tangled, sandy hair. He is a somewhat shambling but attractive denim-clad man in his late 50s, with a thatch of pewter-coloured hair, an engaging smile and a permanently amused gaze. He's tanned, fit, and blessed with a full thatch of light-brown hair. Synonyms mass, mane, mop, head, crop, bush, cloud, frizz, fuzz, foam, curls, tangle, chaos, cascade, quiff, halo 1.3 A matted layer of dead stalks, moss, and other material in a lawn. （草坪上的）腐殖土 Example sentencesExamples Most warm-season grasses develop thatch, a spongelike layer of roots, runners, and grass blades just above the soil surface. Rent a power rake and coring machine to remove thatch and improve air and water circulation around roots of Bermuda grass. That will start a mulching action that breaks down thatch. Use a rake to remove winter debris, break up small amounts of thatch and lift the grass leaves and weed stems. If conditions are dry enough, lawns will benefit from a good raking to remove debris, thatch and moss. When thatch gets too thick it prevents water and nutrients from penetrating to the soil and grass roots. Aerate lawns at least once a season to help prevent the build-up of thatch. Besides raking leaves up, you want to rake deep into the soil to remove thatch. If, after the first cut or two, your lawn looks a bit yellow and patchy, it is probably full of thatch - dead grass and moss - that will give the lawn a spongy feel. They contain microorganisms that help to decompose any layers of thatch present. On a dry day, scarify the lawn to remove unwanted thatch and then aerate and top-dress any badly drained areas. All grass forms a layer of dead plant material, known as thatch, between the grass blades and the soil. Aerate in the fall to help break up compacted soil and remove excess thatch, allowing fertilizer nutrients, sunlight and air to infiltrate the soil. It's a good time to scarify lawns and remove the dead grass called thatch. Heavy thatch may require a second application a week later. However, if the lawn has a thick layer of thatch, grass clippings won't decompose as efficiently. Rake to maintain a clean lawn, doing an especially thorough job at the end of the growing season to reduce thatch. Scarifying is done in autumn to remove debris and to prevent the build-up of thatch. It's amazing how much thatch you can rake out of a lawn if you do it every two or three years. Inorganic chemical fertilizers encourage the accumulation of thatch in the top layer of the soil. verbθætʃTHaCH [with object] Cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material. 用茅草（或类似材料）覆盖（屋顶，建筑物） they have constructed the walls and are now thatching the roof Example sentencesExamples They can spend the night in Harome, in another beautifully thatched building just a short walk down the village main street. Although it is illegal to have thatched roofs on schools, the practice is widespread and largely ignored. He said more than 200 thatched homes had been burnt down, with scores of people fleeing the area. The grain was used for feeding the livestock and the straw for thatching the roof. The roof was thatched, like all the other houses in the village. Where we live is so picturesque that even the bus shelters are thatched. In the top left, one sees a small group of three Irish houses - low, thatched buildings. Yellow and red wooden canoes drift across to Ambu and Lilisiana, two thatched villages on stilts at opposite ends of the bay. The homes at the turn of the century were all built from fieldstones and had thatched roofs. The roof was thatched and a small stone chimney cheerfully puffed out bits of dark smoke. Like most farms, its roof was thatched, and it wasn't very special in any other way either. Here we've got some reeds as well, which are mainly used for thatching the roofs. Old farmhouses lie abandoned throughout the country while thatched cottages are rare. The final, and most exposed of these cottages is unique, being the last thatched one on this coast. The roofs were thatched, turfed or covered in wood shingles, depending on available local resources. Houses are usually rectangular and have mud walls and a gabled roof thatched with straw. The walls in these villages are plastered with cement or mud and most of the houses have thatched roofs. There were roofs that needed to be thatched and walls and doors that needed to be mended. Another concrete house nestled amongst the more traditional black and white thatched houses. The walls and floors were made of stone, and the roof was thatched. Origin Old English theccan ‘cover’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch dekken and German decken.
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