ADJ
fresh
QUANT
bale
The farmer loaded three bales of straw onto the truck for the horses.
PREP
in (the) ~
The farmer's children played in the straw while their parents worked in the fields.
on (the) ~
The farmer spread fresh straw on the ground for the horses to rest on.
noun
A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
A drinking straw.
A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
to not care a straw
‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw, Nor all thine arrows to boot; If I get a knop upon thy bare scop, Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
adj
Made of straw.
straw hat
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Imaginary, but presented as real.
A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.
verb
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
It was the custom for the disaffected of those days to make known their grievances by distributing papers on doors of public buildings, and even strawing them in the high way, for the benefit of the chance passenger.
I have already alluded to "strawing," which can hardly be described as quackery. It is rather a piece of mountebankery. […] The strawer offers to sell any passer by in the streets a straw and give the purchaser a paper which he dares not sell. Accordingly as he judges of the character of his audience, so he intimates that the paper is political, libellous, irreligious, or indecent.
A survey of opinion or a vote that is nonbinding, unofficial, casual, or ad hoc.
2002: I don't think it was innocence that made me want to carry out a straw poll of women friends on the plausibility of this passage — James Meek in London Review of Books, Vol. 2
Of stocks, to buy when both demand and price are low, so as to sell when demand and price are high.
To select the shortest straw or other object while drawing straws.
A farmer's servant, especially a thresher.
Strange fastened it to his cane, for he fancied his little stick even on shipboard. With this he sprung onto the bulwark and roared out to Williams: 'I've not struck, sir! Tell you
A small addition to an already heavy burden which causes it to exceed the capacity.
That's the last straw; it's a petty demand but I’m already under too much work. I quit!
to not care a straw
Wiktionary‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw, Nor all thine arrows to boot; If I get a knop upon thy bare scop, Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
WiktionaryHe also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.
Wiktionarystraw hat
WiktionaryA straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.
WiktionaryIt was the custom for the disaffected of those days to make known their grievances by distributing papers on doors of public buildings, and even strawing them in the high way, for the benefit of the c
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