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.
Strong wind and towering 33-foot waves lashed the low-lying, heavily populated coastline of Andhra Pradesh state, knocking down hundreds of thatched huts, uprooting trees and downing power lines.
It was raised more than 1m off the ground on thick trunks, and the eaves of its thatched roof sloped down almost to the level of the platform. The Sakuddai are justifiably proud of their homes.
The biggest element was replacing the thatched roof.
Church officials say they need $190,000 to preserve the church, which overlooks the thatched roofs and farmlands of Great Brington, 66 miles northwest of London.
'If you have a thatched property you have get to know and trust your thatcher, and a good thatcher will respect that.
As the helicopter swooped over a small ridge, Zarate looked down on a woman and child standing next to a thatched hut with their latest coca harvest drying in the sun nearby.
Here are pictures of thatched huts in the Ukraine, a homburg-hatted Petersburg merchant, two dandies from the Yiddish theater and a bemedaled officer in the czarist army, the only Jew to become one in the entire 19th century.
Huts with thatched roofs and walls made of loose rocks and ammunition boxes are tucked against a sheer cliff for protection.
They tell of being left by their parents in the care of a housekeeper, a man of the Oromo tribe who took them to live with his relatives in a house of mud with a thatched roof.
At the mouth of the lagoon was Miami, a village of two dozen thatched huts built on the sand.
The exhibit also includes a replica of a Japanese tea house, the small thatched structures where members of the fuedal military heirarchy engaged in a highly cultivated ritual of giving and receiving tea as an act of social communion.
Here the roofs are thatched or laid with slate. Tisbury has one of the country's largest tithe barns, with an enormous thatched roof. In the tiny lanes, the hedgerows were filled with wild roses and elderflower.
Here the roofs are thatched or laid with slate. Tisbury has one of the country's largest tithe barns, with an enormous thatched roof. In the tiny lanes, the hedgerows were filled with wild roses and elderflower.
Japanese Prime Minister Toshiku Kaifu stepped out of high-tech Boston and back in time Sunday, touring the thatched huts of Plimoth Plantation and a replica of the Mayflower.