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Rethatch vs Bethatch - What's the difference?

rethatch | bethatch |

As verbs the difference between rethatch and bethatch

is that rethatch is to thatch again, especially something that has previously been thatched while bethatch is to cover; cover over; bedeck.

rethatch

English

Verb

  • To thatch again, especially something that has previously been thatched.

    • Anagrams

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    bethatch

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (obsolete)

    Verb

  • To cover; cover over; bedeck.
  • *1996 , Kerry Segrave, Baldness: a social history :
    • Baldies did not like their condition: "Witness their frantic efforts to keep among the ranks of the bethatched . [...]"
  • To cover with thatch; thatch.
  • *1865 , Richard Francis Burton (sir.), Stone talk :
    • Part it behind, like terrier's back, Bethatch the front like wheaten stack, [...]
  • *1969 , Henry Robinson Luce, Gordon Parks, Life :
    • Both are coolly intense, well bethatched , bell-bottomed and bespectacled.