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(adjective) - A woman who is called to straw is about to have a baby. I first assumed that it referred to a straw mattress, just as "hit the hay" signifies "go to bed." But many natives, including physicians and midwives at widely separated points in Missouri and Arkansas, assure me that straw means the act of parturition . . . It is sometimes used as a verb, as in, "Mable's a-strawin' right now."
--Vance Randolph's Down in the Holler, 1953
January 16, 2018