rethatch

We passed now innumerable little towns and villages clinging to red, brown, and green hillsides, with here and there a thatched cottage of other days, for, in the _agglomérations_, as the French government knows the hamlets and towns, it is now forbidden to thatch or rethatch a roof; you must renew it with tiles or slates when the original thatch wears out.

The Automobilist Abroad

All, through forest life, had become skillful in such tasks, and it did not take them long to rethatch the roof.

The Forest Runners A Story of the Great War Trail in Early Kentucky 1890