Anagrams of: THATCHER

• weapon consisting of a fighting ax; used by North American Indians

• a small ax with a short handle used with one hand (usually to chop wood)

• hair resembling thatched roofing material

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

• plant stalks used as roofing material

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

• cover with thatch

• long-legged spotted cat of Africa and southwestern Asia having nonretractile claws; the swiftest mammal; can be trained to run down game

• the production of young from an egg

• shading consisting of multiple crossing lines

• a sloping rear car door that is lifted to open

• a movable barrier covering a hatchway

• emerge from the eggs

• devise or invent

• inlay with narrow strips or lines of a different substance such as gold or silver, for the purpose of decorating

• draw, cut, or engrave lines, usually parallel, on metal, wood, or paper

• sit on (eggs)

• noisy talk

• the rapid series of noises made by the parts of a machine

• the high-pitched continuing noise made by animals (birds or monkeys)

• click repeatedly or uncontrollably

• cut unevenly with a chattering tool

• talk socially without exchanging too much information

• speak (about unimportant matters) rapidly and incessantly

• make noise as if chattering away

• an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built

• home symbolized as a part of the fireplace

• an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)

• mechanical device consisting of a toothed wheel or rack engaged with a pawl that permits it to move in only one direction

• move by degrees in one direction only