The tall poles are made into posts and rails; the trunks of the pollard trees when thrown are cut into small timber that serves many minor purposes; the brushwood or tops that are cut every now and then make Thatching sticks and faggots; sometimes hedges are made of a kind of willow wicker-work for enclosing gardens.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
It was then and still is the custom after Thatching a house to rope it across with heather-spun ropes, and, at the time, the man was busy spinning some of them; and he told his wife to take his place that night to spin the heather-rope, and said he would take her spinning-wheel.
"The Fairy-Faith in Celtic Countries"
W. Y. Evans Wentz
Five Thatchings, then, made eighty years; add three years since the last Thatching; and the old lady supposed she was seventeen or eighteen at the first-i.
"Wild Life in a Southern County"
Richard Jefferies