What's the difference between tatch and thatch?

Tatch


Definition:

  • (n.) A spot or stain; also, a trick.

Example Sentences:

Thatch


Definition:

  • (n.) Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.
  • (n.) A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.
  • (n.) To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On it rests the small village of Dholera – a cluster of houses with thatched roofs, muddy roads, and acres of flat, fertile land surrounding them.
  • (2) The risk of getting malaria was greater for inhabitants of the poorest type of house construction (incomplete, mud, or cadjan (palm) walls, and cadjan thatched roofs) compared to houses with complete brick and plaster walls and tiled roofs.
  • (3) They were preparing the breakfast at our thatched hat, it was a tea and some biscuits,” Ali says.
  • (4) The school is a collection of hastily built thatched huts scattered round a patch of empty land.
  • (5) Saudi Arabia bombards us and kills our neighbours.” Gummai Esmail Moshasha’s thatched hut in al-Jah, in the Tihama area of al-Hudaydah, was targeted on 12 January.
  • (6) At her similarly grass-thatched home on the other side of the road the traditional birth attendant, who now calls herself Sister Josephine, contemplates the wreck of her once-yellow plastic apron and wonders where she will get another.
  • (7) The beach itself is a long and fine one, with South Atlantic breezes cooling the heels of groups of novice surfers in wetsuits and ladies being massaged in the thatched treatment hut close to the lighthouse.
  • (8) Read more The eastern state of Bihar this week took the unprecedented step of forbidding any cooking between 9am and 6pm, after accidental fires exacerbated by dry, hot and windy weather swept through shantytowns and thatched-roof houses in villages and killed 79 people.
  • (9) And, yes, he could also look splendidly odd, with his windbeaten thatch of sandy hair, porcine eyes and a freckled face that would glow puce and glossy with rage.
  • (10) Shortly after midnight on Sunday, at least five gunmen arrived at the beach by speedboat and stormed the couple's palm-thatched hut, thought to be the furthest from the hotel's reception.
  • (11) At last we came to a small hamlet, half-a-dozen thatched mud-walled houses, all closed up for the night.
  • (12) Water is a critical issue for UNHCR, Oxfam, Médecins Sans Frontières and other relief groups working in the camp, dotted with white tents and thatched huts among the sparse trees.
  • (13) A man sits on the ground in the shade of a thatched stall repairing plastic washing-up bowls.
  • (14) Until now the school has used temporary mud-and-wattle structures with grass-thatched roofs that sway in the wind or, in rough weather, simply collapse.
  • (15) Pub stop The Cleave, Lustleigh (01647 277223, thecleavelustleigh.uk.com ), is a thatched village pub with garden and good-quality local food.
  • (16) Boko Haram violence keeping a million children out of school, says Unicef Read more A rocket-propelled grenade then exploded, setting grass-thatched huts alight, and a second woman blew herself up, Isa said.
  • (17) The 600 villagers, who live in thatched huts with conical roofs, subsist by growing maize, bananas, cassava, sweet potato and sorghum.
  • (18) He writes of grand royal processions and firework displays, of a society with many slaves, open-air marketplaces with women vendors, and houses built of bamboo and thatch.
  • (19) Bio-assay results showed that Folithion was effective on mud for two-and-a-half months, on wood for seven months, and on thatch for six months.
  • (20) At the bottom of the sandy dunes sit wide turquoise craters, looked over by gritty hills where haphazard tents made from tarpaulins and thatch serve as shelters for the men descending into the hollowed-out pools with pickaxes and buckets.

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