ppl. a. [f. THATCH v. (q.v. for Forms) + -ED1.] Covered or roofed with thatch.
1467. in Eng. Gilds (1870), 372. That no chimneys of tre ner thached houses be suffred wtyn the cyte.
a. 1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. VI., 94. The newe Constable … destroyed two or thre … litle poore thetched villages.
c. 1640. [Shirley], Capt. Underwit, I., in Bullen, O. Pl. (1883), II. 327. Does this thatchd cottage head hold still in fashion?
1653. Walton, Angler, i. 2. Sir, I know the thatcht house very well: I often make it my resting place.
1863. Miss Braddon, Aur. Floyd, I. i. 1–2. Solitary road-side inns with brown thatched roofs and moss-grown stacks of lop-sided chimneys.
b. fig. Covered as with thatch (in quot. 1606, with reference to its inflammability). Thatched-head, one who has matted hair.
1606. Sir G. Goosecappe, III. i., in Bullen, O. Pl. (1884), III. 44. Such sparkes were good enough yet to set thacht dispositions a fire.
1613. Beaumont & Fl., Coxcomb, II. iii. Ere you go, Sirrah Thatch’d Head! wouldst not thou be whipt, and think it justice?
1889. Doyle, Micah Clarke, 128. A pair of great thatched eyebrows.
