Word Finder - straw

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A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

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Such dried stalks considered collectively.

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A drinking straw.

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A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

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Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.

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To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.

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To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

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Made of straw.

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straw hat

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• strawen

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Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

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Imaginary, but presented as real.

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A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.

The seniors tried to collect straw and potatoes and, in general, food for the men.

The picture was the last straw.

The pipe of the upper joint alone is selected for plaiting, the remainder of the straw being used for other purposes.

In his safe, warm place in the straw, Caedmon soon fell asleep.

Hessian sack lined with straw.

Whatever the specific rotation, there may in practice be deviations from the plan of retaining on the farm the whole of the root-crops, the straw of the grain crops and the leguminous fodder crops (clover, vetches, sainfoin, &c.) for the production of meat or milk, and, coincidently, for that of manure to be returned to the land.

The most valuable straw for plaits is grown in Tuscany, and from it the well-known Tuscan plaits and Leghorn hats are made.

The ornament is composed of straw, beautifully and artistically interlaced by the deft fingers of the maidens of Bride.

The pine straw mulch is easy to distribute in landscaping areas by simply spreading out.

He picked up a piece of straw and leaned his back against the tree, picking his teeth.

The straw hat manufacture has flourished since the 18th century.

My bruised knee is the last straw and it's got to go.

I think the last straw was a sunglass site that we've been working on for some time now.

It's made of nylon for easy care but has the look of a straw hat.

She stretched out on her stomach and absently poked a piece of straw into her mouth.

Jenny Nachman pulled the short straw to carry the news to Ida Wassermann.

Bending the straw, she held the cup to Carmen's lips while she drank.

The last straw that determined action was the discovery of a paper docketed " Not to be opened till after my death," which was nothing but a railing accusation against herself.

When the bed is finished, it is covered with straw to protect it from rain, and also from parching influences.

In 1888, at Nottingham, hay and straw presses for steam-power, horse-power and handpower were the subjects of competition.

There are manufactures of wool and silk, and of straw hats and pottery.

They manufacture copper boilers for making sugar and understand several trades, weave ponchos and hammocks and make straw hats.

The straw of Tuscany, specially grown for plaiting, is distinguished into three qualities - Pontederas Semone being the finest, Mazzuolo the second quality, from which the bulk of the plaits are made, while from the third quality, Santa Fioro, only "Tuscan pedals" and braids are plaited.

The straw is cut as in ordinary harvesting, but is allowed to dry in the sun before binding.

The result is that, while the Luton trade in the manufacture of straw and fancy hats of every description has largely extended, the number of English plaiters, all told, was not more than a few hundreds in 1907, as compared with 30,000 in 1871.

These floors were made up of heather, straw and peat interspersed with, often discontinuous, ash and grit layers.

The cows were facing the wall and a large gutter served to collect both cow dung and bedding straw.

British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is defending Britain's policy of what is called " constructive engagement " with Iran's Islamic government.

He has done his best to make bricks without straw, but I have not heard a word which indicates any extenuation whatsoever.

White or pale straw gills radiate from the point of attachment where they may fork.

Another character, Tinny Day, came with his huge steam-engines to thresh the grain and stack the straw.

Beneath his straw hat the hard grooves of his face told of years under the sun.

The animals graze in the summer and are fed hay, straw or silage in the winter.

The burning straw bales, however, were caught by a freak gust of wind and created an inferno of intense heat.

I went to the doctors after I collapsed at college, but it was the proverbial last straw.

Two months pre-calving the cows are fed on barley straw which has been undersown with the red clover ley straw which has been undersown with the red clover ley.

James Lumley was charged with stealing a bundle of straw plait from the gig of Frederick William Bethel at Lavenham.

Jack Straw is merely indulging in a tactical ploy for a domestic audience.

A straw poll of New Insight staff in the office on one day showed that 100 per cent had tried it.

Other ingredients might include set retardants such as hydrated lime, and fiber reinforcements such as straw and ox hair.

The final straw was getting 2 in the same day.

The Wizard was also most heartily welcomed by the straw man, who was an important personage in the Land of Oz.

The soldiers, on seeing him, lit wisps of straw and ran after him, shouting, "Vive l'Empereur!"

The remainder, that in the straw, as well as that in the roots and the leguminous crops, is supposed to be retained on the farm, excepting the small amount exported in meat and milk.

Besides the use of the straw when cut up and mixed with other food for fodder, the oat grain constitutes an important food for both man and beast.

There are manufactures of cloth, paper, machinery, straw hats, leather and tobacco.

Straw (from strew, as being used for strewing), is the general term applied to the stalky residue of grain-plants (especially wheat, rye, oats, barley).

It serves for the thatching of roofs, for a papermaking material, for ornamenting small surfaces as a "strawmosaic," for plaiting into door and table mats, mattresses, &c., and for weaving and plaiting into light baskets, artificial flowers, &c. These applications, however, are insignificant in comparison with the place occupied by straw as a raw material for the straw bonnets and hats worn by both sexes.

Of the various materials which go to the fabrication of plaited head-gear the most important is wheaten straw.

It is only in certain areas that straw suitable for making plaits is produced.