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  • thatch top palm
    [cf. THATCH 2, TOP] n. a palm tree, Inodes palmetto: 1905 (Shattuck 201). <Black>
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  • thatch palmetto
    [cf. OED palmetto thatch 1866] n. a tree, Thrinax parviflora: 1731 The Thatch Palmetto… seldom aspires above twelve or fourteen
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  • thatch house
    [Car.; DJE; cf. Haitian kay pay (lit, house + straw, thatch) idem TDKF] n. a house with a roof made
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  • thatch broom
    n. a broom made of palm fronds: When our tatch broom old, we does use it in de yard (Nassau).
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  • thatchberry
    [cf. THATCH 2; from its berry-like fruit] n. a kind of palmetto, Coccothrinax sp.: Mama Gus kitchen have a thatchberry
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  • thatch
    /tach/ n. 1. [W Car.; from its use in thatching roofs] palm fronds. <Black> 2. [W Car.; from the fact that
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  • tha's, da's (2)
     das/ [Car.; das that conj. and "Das would be de bes' place" DJE:197; from that pron., influenced by THA'S1] pron.
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  • tha's, da's
    /das/ [Atlantic DJE, KED; cf. from Proto-Creole da or na parallel to Twi na idem (Holm 1980c:374), influenced by Eng. that's:
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  • thanky
    /tángkiy/ [Atlantic; also dial. in Brit. (DHS) and US South (ADD); cf. OED thankee vulgar colloq. for thank ye, thank
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  • test (glasses) tested glasses
    [cf. W Car. tes glas prescription glass] n. prescription glass for spectacles: These glasses test (Eleu.).
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