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urposes; its fruit and roots serve for food, its sap for making toddy, and its leaves for thatching huts.

A rude hut, as of posts, covered with branches or thatch, where herdsmen or farm laborers may live or lodge at night.

Straw prepared for thatching a roof. [Prov. Eng.]

ack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching. Golden clusters of beehive ricks, rising at intervals beyond the hedgerows. G. Eliot.

of any glutinous or adhesive quality. Let us not hang like ropingicicles Upon our houses' thatch. Shak.

Of or pertaining to the family Sittidæ, or nuthatches.

A small stick or rod used as a spike in thatching; a splinter. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.

tangular or oblong, contracted at the top to a point or ridge, and sometimes covered with thatch. But corn was housed, and beans were in the stack. Cowper.

from Stack. Stacking band, Stacking belt, a band or rope used in binding thatch or straw upon a stack. -- Stacking stage, a stage used in building stacks.

der for cattle, especially straw or coarse hay. Where live nibbling sheep, And flat meads thatched with stover them to keep. Shak. Thresh barley as yet but as need shall require, Fresh threshed for stover thy cattle desire. Tusser.

A switch or rod used by thatchers to bind their work. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

See Thatch, Thatcher. [Obs. or Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

A handful of straw bound together at one end, and used for thatching. [Scot.] Jamieson. Tippet grebe (Zoöl.), the great crested grebe, or one of several similar species. -- Tippet grouse (Zoöl.), the ruffed grouse. -- To turn tippet, to change. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.

The nuthatch. [Prov. Eng.]