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thatch-rakes

thatch-rakes is the plural of thatch-rake.

Meaning of thatch-rake

Noun

thatch-rake (plural thatch-rakes)

  1. A tool for combing the straw or similar material in a thatched roof straight, consisting of a straight bar with curved teeth or points.
    • He gripped his thatch-rake and, swinging it, struck at a tree.1897, Jerome Klapka Jerome, Robert Barr, Arthur Lawrence, The Idler - Volume 10, page 542
  2. A representation of such a rake, used as a charge on the field or as a bordure device consisting of a straight line from which periodically project short perpendicular lines with slightly curved tips.
    • A. __Puckering, impaling, S. three thatch-rakes1796, Daniel Lysons, The Environs of London: Counties of Herts, Essex & Kent, page 331

Questions about thatch-rakes

What is thatch-rakes the plural of?
Thatch-rakes is the plural of thatch-rake.

Words near thatch-rakes in the dictionary

  1. Thatch Cay
  2. thatch rake
  3. thatch rakes
  4. Thatch weave
  5. thatch-rake
  6. thatch-rakes
  7. Thatcham
  8. thatched
  9. thatcher
  10. Thatcher effect
  11. Thatcher illusion

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