Definition of straw

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Straw (n.) The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw..

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Sheaved :: Sheaved (a.) Made of straw.
Hayrack :: Hayrack (n.) A frame mounted on the running gear of a wagon, and used in hauling hay, straw, sheaves, etc.; -- called also hay rigging..
Festue :: Festue (n.) A straw; a fescue.
Mulch :: Mulch (n.) Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture..
Paillasse :: Paillasse (n.) An under bed or mattress of straw.
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..
Blite :: Blite (n.) A genus of herbs (Blitum) with a fleshy calyx. Blitum capitatum is the strawberry blite.
Festucine :: Festucine (a.) Of a straw color; greenish yellow.
Sennit :: Sennit (n.) Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.
Wild :: Wild (superl.) Growing or produced without culture; growing or prepared without the aid and care of man; native; not cultivated; brought forth by unassisted nature or by animals not domesticated; as, wild parsnip, wild camomile, wild strawberry, wild honey..
Rush :: Rush (n.) The merest trifle; a straw.
Stramonium :: Stramineous (a.) Chaffy; like straw; straw-colored.
Bed :: Bed (n.) An article of furniture to sleep or take rest in or on; a couch. Specifically: A sack or mattress, filled with some soft material, in distinction from the bedstead on which it is placed (as, a feather bed), or this with the bedclothes added. In a general sense, any thing or place used for sleeping or reclining on or in, as a quantity of hay, straw, leaves, or twigs..
Sideromancy :: Sideromancy (n.) Divination by burning straws on red-hot iron, and noting the manner of their burning..
Wase :: Wase (n.) A bundle of straw, or other material, to relieve the pressure of burdens carried upon the head..
Straw-colored :: Strawboard (n.) Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
Straw-cutter :: Straw-colored (a.) Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n..
Platting :: Platting (n.) Plaited strips or bark, cane, straw, etc., used for making hats or the like..
Cobwall :: Cobwall (n.) A wall made of clay mixed with straw.
Lady''s Bedstraw :: Lady's bedstraw () The common bedstraw (Galium verum); also, a slender-leaved East Indian shrub (Pharnaceum Mollugo), with white flowers in umbels..
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