2. Verb. (third-person singular of thatch) ¹
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Definition of Thatches
1. thatch [v] - See also: thatch
Lexicographical Neighbors of Thatches
Literary usage of Thatches
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Sea Letters by Mrs. Mary V. Gerhard Woolley, John Granville Woolley (1906)
"Native villages succeed one another as the eye follows the curving beach. Back of
the villages, with their enormous thatches of The Rainmaker, ..."
2. Autobiography, a Collection of the Most Instructive and Amusing Lives Ever (1831)
"... and some others, had committed in his country. and in such cases these cattle
live well enough npon the thatches of their houses. ..."
3. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine by Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress) (1913)
"Your own ancestral acres! It is really most dreadful. You have absolutely identified
the place by your detailed description of the thatches and the drains ..."
4. The General East India Guide and Vade Mecum: For the Public Functionary by John Borthwick Gilchrist (1825)
"... but the chup- pers, or grass-thatches, usually are constructed at full 40°.
At the military stations, where grass is invariably used for the covering in ..."
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