thatching
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of thatching
1350–1400; Middle English thecchyng. See thatch, -ing 1 ( def. )
Example Sentences
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Roofers doubled the square feet covered in thatch in the Netherlands between 2000 and 2010 as builders warmed to new uses, said Henk Horlings, president of the International Thatching Society.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 15, 2013
Thatching in 1808 cost 8s. per square of 10 ft.;
From Cottage Building in Cob, Pisé, Chalk and Clay a Renaissance (2nd edition) by Williams-Ellis, Clough
Thatching, too, is almost a lost art in the country.
From Vanishing England by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
Thatching is done by piece-work, and paid at so much a "square" of ten by ten feet.
From Wood and Garden Notes and thoughts, practical and critical, of a working amateur by Jekyll, Gertrude
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