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Sheaved :: Sheaved (a.) Made of straw.

Flaxen :: Flaxen (a.) Made of flax; resembling flax or its fibers; of the color of flax; of a light soft straw color; fair and flowing, like flax or tow; as, flaxen thread; flaxen hair..

Straw-cutter :: Straw-colored (a.) Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n..

Wisp :: Wisp (n.) A small bundle, as of straw or other like substance..

Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw..

Wad :: Wad (n.) Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose..

Hautboy :: Hautboy (n.) A sort of strawberry (Fragaria elatior).

Throw-crook :: Throw-crook (n.) An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.

Bedstraw :: Bedstraw (n.) Straw put into a bed.

Oat :: Oat (n.) A musical pipe made of oat straw.

Overstraw :: Overstraw (v. t.) To overstrew.

Whisk :: Whisk (n.) A small bunch of grass, straw, twigs, hair, or the like, used for a brush; hence, a brush or small besom, as of broom corn..

Pseudocarp :: Pseudocarp (n.) That portion of an anthocarpous fruit which is not derived from the ovary, as the soft part of a strawberry or of a fig..

Winter :: Winter (v. i.) To keep, feed or manage, during the winter; as, to winter young cattle on straw..

Sherry :: Sherry (n.) A Spanish light-colored dry wine, made in Andalusia. As prepared for commerce it is colored a straw color or a deep amber by mixing with it cheap wine boiled down..

Straw :: Straw (v. t.) To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow..

Scottering :: Scottering (n.) The burning of a wad of pease straw at the end of harvest.

Jackstraw :: "Jackstraw (n.) One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together on a table, to be gathered up singly by a hooked instrument, without touching or disturbing the rest of the pile. See Spilikin..

Stramineous :: Stramineous (a.) Strawy; consisting of straw.

Helm :: Helm (n.) See Haulm, straw..

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