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Definition of rethatch in English: rethatchverb riːˈθatʃ [with object]Thatch (a roof or building) again. Example sentencesExamples - This stripping is almost inevitable when old straw roofs are rethatched with water reed, and very likely when older roofs are rethatched with one layer of new straw.
- I had always assumed that when a house is to be rethatched, all the existing thatch was taken off; but this is not so.
- Well-built homes sometimes lasted for ten years or more, although rethatching the roof was an annual event.
- Having just completed rethatching a cottage in Old Malton, his new work was on a crib which would form part of the Yorkshire Agricultural Society's contribution to the York Minster Harvest Festival Service.
- And I always make sure that the roofs of the servants' huts are painstakingly rethatched every five years.
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