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imp. & p. p. of Straw.
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Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
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Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
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A quick succession or confusion of small sounds, like those made by shaking leaves or straw, by rubbing silk, or the like; a rustling.
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A slender trailing branch which takes root at the joints or end and there forms new plants, as in the strawberry and the common cinquefoil.
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A prostrate filiform stem or runner, as of the strawberry. See Runner.
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A handful of straw bound together at one end, and used for thatching.
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To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
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Specifically: A little mass of some soft or flexible material, such as hay, straw, tow, paper, or old rope yarn, used for retaining a charge of powder in a gun, or for keeping the powder and shot close; also, to diminish or avoid the effects of windage. Also, by extension, a dusk of felt, pasteboard, etc., serving a similar purpose.
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Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw.
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Bearing sarments, or runners, as the strawberry.
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A stack or pile, as of grain, straw, or hay, in the open air, usually protected from wet with thatching.
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The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
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The merest trifle; a straw.
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An instrument used for twisting ropes out of straw.
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An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
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Consisting of vetches or of pea straw.
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The cover, or case, of a bed, mattress, etc., which contains the straw, feathers, hair, or other filling.
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Of or pertaining to a natural order of plants (Rosaceae) of which the rose is the type. It includes also the plums and cherries, meadowsweet, brambles, the strawberry, the hawthorn, applies, pears, service trees, and quinces.
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A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the European, F. vesca. There are also other less common species.
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