Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The occupation of selling straws in the street and giving with them something which is forbidden to be sold, as indecent papers, political songs, and the like.
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| Reply the guy “strawing” kirby should have been hannibal lecter 8D
EXTRALIFE – By Scott Johnson - Today’s Comic: “Tasty Pink Delight” 2008
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Carie with you for that purpose all sorts of garden seeds, as wel of sweete strawing herbs, and of flowers, as also of pot herbes and all sorts for roots, &c.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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He called out to the naked boys who were sweeping and strawing.
Enchantment Card, Orson Scott 1999
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Carie with you for that purpose all sorts of garden seeds, as wel of sweete strawing herbs, and of flowers, as also of pot herbes and all sorts for roots, &c.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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In which house they haue only one roome, hauing the one halfe of the floure raised with broad stones a foot higher than the other, whereon strawing
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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It also meant I was behind with the next round of jobs, strawing up some of the pig huts, getting the byre ready for the in-pig sow, bake some biscuits, do some washing up, and more.
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