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thatch

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Noun — Straw or similar plant material used to cover the roof of a building or a haystack.

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A 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 the o-grade of Proto-Indo-European *(s)teg- (“cover”). It is cognate with Icelandic þak, Dutch dak, German Dach, Norwegian tak, Swedish tak and Danis...

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