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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
rethatch .
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Examples
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Mick Dray, a master thatcher in Devon in southwest England, recently offered five customers a choice of paying more for rethatching because of the rising cost of straw or putting off the work.
Commodity boom Lisa Kallal 2008
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One of the released prisoners ventured to come down to the white men and beg permission to cut rushes for the rethatching of his dwelling.
Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea Tom Bevan
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Carter unsheathed his heavy cane-knife and cut palmetto fans for rethatching where required; Eudo Stent looked after the horses; Bulow's axe rang among the fragrant red cedars; the Indian squatted gravely before a characteristic Seminole fire built of logs, radiating like the spokes of a cart-wheel from the centre which was a hub of glowing coals.
The Firing Line 1899
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"Stob": the term for a handful of straw with a knot in one end used as part of rethatching an old straw roof
Transition Culture 2010
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£25,000 quotes for rethatching quite small places, and of interminable waiting lists.
Politics news, UK and world political comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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