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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 thatch /ˈθæʧ/
 蓋屋頂的材料,用草蓋的屋頂,濃密的頭髮(vt.)用茅草覆蓋

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Thatch, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Thatched p. pr. & vb. n. Thatching.]  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.
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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Thatch n.
 1. Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
 2. Bot. A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
 Thatch sparrow, the house sparrow. [Prov. Eng.]

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 thatch
      n 1: hair resembling thatched roofing material
      2: plant stalks used as roofing material
      3: an English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the
         Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718) [syn: Teach,
          Edward Teach, Edward Thatch, Blackbeard]
      4: a house roof made with a plant material (as straw) [syn: thatched
          roof]
      v : cover with thatch; "thatch the roofs"