Thatch: alternatives and connections

Mineral pitch, Jews' pitch, or compact native bitumen. It is brittle, of a black or brown color and high luster on a surface of fractu…

An ancient rural game, commonly played round stacks of barley, or other grain, in which some of the party attempt to catch others who…

The wooden boarding used in supporting the roofs and walls of coal mines. See Brattice.

A heavy woven or felted fabric, usually of wool, but also of cotton, hemp, straw, etc.; esp. a floor covering made in breadths to be s…

The upper story of the nave of a church, containing windows, and rising above the aisle roofs.

To dye in grain, or of a fast color. See Ingrain.

Any palm tree having fan-shaped or radiate leaves; as the Chamaerops humilis of Southern Europe; the species of Sabal and Thrinax in t…

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Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.

Bearing grain, or seeds like grain.

A succulent plant of the genus Sempervivum (S. tectorum), originally a native of subalpine Europe, but now found very generally on old…

A notch; a cleft; a barb; a ragged or sharp protuberance; a denticulation.

Full of rushes: resembling rushes; juncaceous.

A truss, framed with a king-post; -- used in roofs, bridges, etc.

One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and…

A straw plaiting used for bonnets and hats, made from the straw of a particular kind of wheat, grown for the purpose in Tuscany, Italy…

A bed or stretcher so arranged that a person, esp. a sick or wounded person, may be easily carried in or upon it.

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.