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

angular 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.

er 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.

, v. t. Swingling tow, the coarse part of flax, separated from the finer by swingling and hatcheling.

A piece of canvas covered with tar or a waterproof composition, used for covering the hatches of a ship, hammocks, boats, etc.

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.

he cuckoo as a place for depositing its own eggs. The titling, . . . being thus deceived, hatcheth the egg, and bringeth up the chick of another bird. Holland.

A kind of war hatchet used by the American Indians. It was originally made of stone, but afterwards of iron.

That which comes from hemp in the process of hatcheling. Topping lift (Naut.), a large, strong tackle employed to raise or top the end of a gaff, or of a boom.

The coarse and broken part of flax or hemp, separated from the finer part by the hatchel or swingle.

An embryonic insect which has twice cast its skin previous to hatching from the egg.

A freight steamer having a high hatch coaming extending almost continuously fore and aft, but not of whaleback form at the sides.

A whaleback steamer with a hatch coaming, usually about seven feet high, extending almost continuously fore and aft.

To strip the shell from; to take out of the shell; to hatch.

nnected with the oviducts of many invertebrates in which the eggs are retained until they hatch or until the embryos develop more or less. See Illust. of Hermaphrodite in Append.

A female insect producing eggs from which young are hatched, though there has been no fecundation by a male; a parthenogenetic insect. The Virgin, or The Blessed Virgin, the Virgin Mary, the Mother of our Lord. -- Virgin's bower (Bot.), a name given to several climbing plants of the genus Clematis, as C. Vitalba of Eu…

A rod laid on a roof to support the thatch.