Hay vs. Thatch — What's the Difference?

Hay is grass, legumes, or other herbaceous plants that have been cut and dried to be stored for use as animal fodder, particularly for large grazing animals raised as livestock, such as cattle, horses, goats, and sheep. However, it is also fed to smaller domesticated animals such as rabbits and guinea pigs.

Plant stalks or foliage, such as reeds or palm fronds, used for roofing.

Grass or other plants, such as clover or alfalfa, cut and dried for fodder.

Something, such as a thick growth of hair on the head, that resembles thatch.

(Slang) A trifling amount of money

Dead turf, as on a lawn.

To mow and cure grass and herbage for hay.

To cover with or as if with thatch.

To make hay on (a patch of land).

Straw, rushes, or similar, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

To make (grass or other plants) into hay.

(West Indies) Any of several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.

To feed with hay.

A buildup of cut grass, stolons or other material on the soil in a lawn.

(uncountable) Grass cut and dried for use as animal fodder.

(by extension) Any straw-like material, such as a person's hair.

(countable) Any mix of green leafy plants used for fodder.

To cover the roof with straw, reed, leaves, etc.

(slang) Cannabis; marijuana.

Straw, rushes, or the like, used for making or covering the roofs of buildings, or of stacks of hay or grain.

A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially a rabbit.

A name in the West Indies for several kinds of palm, the leaves of which are used for thatching.

(obsolete) A hedge.

To cover with, or with a roof of, straw, reeds, or some similar substance; as, to thatch a roof, a stable, or a stack of grain.

(obsolete) A net placed around the lair or burrow of an animal.

Hair resembling thatched roofing material

(obsolete) An enclosure, haw.

Plant stalks used as roofing material

(obsolete) A circular country dance.

An English pirate who operated in the Caribbean and off the Atlantic coast of North America (died in 1718)

The letter for the h sound in Pitman shorthand.

A house roof made with a plant material (as straw)

To cut grasses or herb plants for use as animal fodder.

Cover with thatch;

To lay snares for rabbits.

A hedge.

A net set around the haunt of an animal, especially of a rabbit.

Grass cut and cured for fodder.

To lay snares for rabbits.

To cut and cure grass for hay.

Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder