thatch
noun
Also a material, as straw, rushes, leaves, or the like, used to cover roofs, grain stacks, etc.
were 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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The wheat stacks were thatching, and in the rickyard, in the carpenter's shop, and in the whist of the woods they talked of love and marriage.
From Esther Waters by George (George Augustus) Moore
Tuesday, July l4.—We have had a holiday to-day, as the men were thatching the school roof.
From Three Years in Tristan da Cunha by Katherine Mary Barrow
In the stack-yard, behind the lengthy range of stables, two men were thatching.
From Bob, Son of Battle by Alfred Ollivant
