thatch
noun
Also a material, as straw, rushes, leaves, or the like, used to cover roofs, grain stacks, etc.
was thatching
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past progressiveof thatch.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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One morning he stepped out to see how an outhouse which he was thatching went on.
From The Shepherd of Salisbury Plain and Other Tales by Hannah More
On the last day of the time fixed by him, the skeely man was thatching a cottage at the Woollaw.
From Stories of the Border Marches by Jeanie Lang
When the maid appeared he told her to go to Mr. Paul, who was thatching in the stack-yard, and say he wished to see him at once.
From A Son of Hagar A Romance of Our Time by Sir Hall Caine
