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In its shadow the muskrat is thatching his winter home, and on his new-shorn watery lawn the full-fledged wild duck broods disport in fullness of feather and strength of pinion.

From In New England Fields and Woods by Robinson, Rowland E. (Evans)

Another is thatching, for there are three detached wheat-ricks round a spur of the Down a mile away, where the plain is arable, and there, too, a plough is at work.

From The Open Air by Jefferies, Richard