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- noun Plural form of
thatcher .
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Examples
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He brought a team of thatchers from the Pacific coast to San Miguel, where they built 4 beautiful palapas -
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I can remember five or six great thatchers of the old school dying then.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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With a billhook in one hand and a leather glove much too large for her on the other, she was making spars, such as are used by thatchers, with great rapidity.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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I can remember five or six great thatchers of the old school dying then.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Most of the good thatchers were getting on the old side and beginning to drop out.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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With a billhook in one hand and a leather glove much too large for her on the other, she was making spars, such as are used by thatchers, with great rapidity.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Of course, he could buy them ready-made by someone else, or imported from Central Europe, as many thatchers do, but Keith enjoys the seasonal nature of his work, and its varied rhythms from month to month.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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And not so long ago, when thatchers still had apprentices, the splitting of these pegs would have been part of their work.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Most of the good thatchers were getting on the old side and beginning to drop out.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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Of course, he could buy them ready-made by someone else, or imported from Central Europe, as many thatchers do, but Keith enjoys the seasonal nature of his work, and its varied rhythms from month to month.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
john commented on the word thatchers
Also known as lady balls.
May 29, 2008