Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- obsolete imp. & p. p. of
straw .
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- adjective Having a particular kind of
straw . - adjective Covered with
straw .
Etymologies
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Examples
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So in the fine ballad called "The Reapers of Landisfarne" it is a pity to mar a good stanza by using the queer participle "strawed" as a rhyme to _sod_ and
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various
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He has toiled like a beast all his days, and lived less comfortably than my horses in their deep-strawed stalls.
Chapter 36 2010
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So we hastily strawed down a lambing pen and coaxed/pushed/bribed her down from the woods and into the pen.
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Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
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His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
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His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed:
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Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:
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And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
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And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
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Now he took the time, now that the garden was weeded, the stable was strawed, Jiro was well content, and the cabin had become marvelously orderly in the time the girl had been here.
2005 Cherryh, C. J. 2005
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