Definitions
A roof covering made from straw, reeds, or similar dry material.
Word origin
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”).
Used in a sentence
“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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer1 curated clues
01“Straw roof covering”6 letters
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