During the other months of the year, gardening, fencing, and thatchingare their chief occupations.
Leaves of the musacaae (plantains and bananas) serve for a similar purpose; and both kinds are equally employed in thatching the huts in which the natives dwell.
They baited, therefore, and formed camp--their Dyak guide erecting a bamboo hut in less than an hour, and thatching it over with the huge leaves of the wild musaceae.
The Peruvian Indians use the pinnate fronds of both species for thatching their huts; but it is the nuts of the larger one that have given its great celebrity to the tree.
The noise came through the opening between the parapet and thatching which was supported by beams.
The walls of the structure, I should judge, were about four feet thick, and there was a space that wide where the parapet of the wall and thatching came near together.
Imagine a wide level plain, with one uniform dull covering of rice stubble, save where in the centre a mound rises some two acres in extent, covered with long thatching grass, a few scrubby acacia bushes, and other jungly brushwood.
On many of the banks bordering the roads, thatching grass, or rather strong upright waving grass, with a beautiful feathery plume, is planted.
He had not gone far when he saw a field of thatching grass on fire, and in the middle, surrounded by the flames, was a huge poisonous snake, unable to escape.
Began thatching our new house with bushes: To-day we caught a fine rock-fish; this is the first fish we have seen alive since our being here.
This day we finished the thatching of our new house.
The best thatching reed comes from clay soil out Exeter and Crediton way.
I be a thatcher, and thatching to-the-truth-of-music is about done for.
And where do you think," I asked, "can be seen the most perfect examples of thatching in England?
A month later he was harvesting for the small-holders, and again there was rick-thatching for him to do.
Sometimes he takes a day for his own affairs, carting home hop-bine in his donkey-cart, or getting heath for some thatching job that has been offered to him.
It would be interesting to learn whether elephants in their wild state are in the habit of so thatching their backs.
The Subdivisional Officer's bungalow was a type usually to be found in rural Districts, built of bricks and mortar, whitewashed, and roofed with the thatching grass that grows on low-lying lands by the Ganges.
They were all made on the same pattern, of stout young pine-trees with ridge-pole and rafters to support a dense thatching of boughs, and mostly with a hole left in the centre of the roof for the smoke of the fire burned within to escape.
We have to make provision for manure, and collect our peats, and prepare stuff for thatching our houses, and perhaps by Martinmas we have expended from £6 worth of labour and expense on our little farms.
We have to make provision for manure, and collect our peats, and prepare stuff for thatching our houses, and perhaps by Martinmas we have expended from £6 to £10 worth of labour and expense on our little farms.
Virginia creeper and various vines throw down long ropes of green, as if to help their flower friends up the steep walls; thatching their sides with softest beauty.
The high note--la note qui chante--was the curious thatchingof the roofs, some of them miracles of cunning craftsmanship.
On the other hand, he was artistically eager to tackle the decorative thatching which is still to be found in Wiltshire.
Uncle, it appeared, was at work, thatching a dormer window, which exacted his particular skill.
Its large leaves are used for thatching roofs, for which purpose they are well fitted and very durable.
A pretty Brazilian palm; the leaves are used for thatching huts, and other parts of the plant are utilized.
The stem is used for building purposes, and the leaves for thatching roofs.
The leaves are from 8 to 10 feet long, and are used for thatching houses, making various mattings, bags, etc.
But that arrangement drew speedily to an end, for the walls of the house, built of squared logs, soon rose to a good height; the chimney of sticks and clay was finished; and at last it was but a question of thatching the roof.
The boat was kept on the other side; so I hallooed to a man engaged in thatching a rick of oats to come and ferry me over.
I intend to finish the thatching of my hut," said Quintal, in that off-hand tone of independence and disregard of the wishes of others which was one of his characteristics.
Quintal continued the thatchingof his hut, in which work his humble wife aided him effectively.
Some of the thatching on the wheat-stacks was now whirled fantastically aloft, and had to be replaced and weighted with some rails that lay near at hand.
Oak went to the recumbent form of Matthew Moon, who usually undertook the rough thatching of the home-stead, and shook him.
Thatching is paid by the 'square,' which is 100 square feet.
Snakes were so numerous that the thatching and almost every nook of our huts was infested with them.
The leaves of different kinds of palms are used for thatching the Indian huts, the curua palm among others.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thatching" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
