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Definition: Straw |
StrawAdjective1. Of a pale yellow color like straw; straw colored. Noun1. Plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder. 2. Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds. 3. A yellow tint; yellow diluted with white. 4. A thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the mouth. Verb1. Cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm". 2. Spread by scattering; "strew toys all over the carpet" ("straw" is archaic). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "straw" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Bible | Straw Used in brick-making (Ex. 5:7-18). Used figuratively in Job 41:27; Isa. 11:7; 25:10; 65:25. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. |
Building & Civil Engineering | Protection of open surfaces quite soon after placing. . . is largely a matter of local materials available, and may be -- or reeds, or. . . sheet tin, hessian, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | If you dream of straw, your life is threatened with emptiness and failure. To see straw piles burning, is a signal of prosperous times. To feed straw to stock, foretells that you will make poor provisions for those depending upon you. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Food & Agriculture | Strawy residue which remains after threshing of grain crop, etc. Source: European Union. (references) |
Literature | Straw Servants wishing to be hired used to go into the market-place of Carlisle (Carel) with a straw in their mouth. (See Mop .) "At Carel I stuid wi' a strae i my mouth, The weyves com roun' me in custers; What weage dus te ax, canny lad? says yen." Anderson: Cumberland Ballads. Straw chopped or otherwise, at a wedding, signifies that the bridge is no virgin. Flowers indicate purity or virginity, but straw is only the refuse from which corn has been already taken. A little straw shows which way the wind blows. Mere trifles often indicate the coming on of momentous events. They are shadows cast before coming events. A man of straw. A man without means; a Mrs. Harris; a sham. In French, "Un homme de paille," like a malkin. (See Man Of Straw.) I have a straw to break with you. I am displeased with you; I have a reproof to give you. In feudal times possession of a fief was conveyed by giving a straw to the new tenant. If the tenant misconducted himself, the lord dispossessed him by going to the threshold of his door and breaking a straw, saying as he did so, "As I break this straw, so break I the contract made between us." In allusion to this custom, it is said in Reynard the Fox - The kinge toke up a straw fro' the ground, and pardoned and forguf the Foxe," on condition that the Fox showed King Lion where the treasures were hid (ch. v.). In the straw. "Être en couche" (in bed). The phrase is applied to women in childbirth. The allusion is to the straw with which beds were at one time usually stuffed, and not to the litter laid before a house to break the noise of wheels passing by. The Dutch of Haarlem and Enckhuysen, when a woman is confined, expose a pin-cushion at the street-door. If the babe is a boy, the pin-cushion has a red fringe, if a girl a white one. Not to care a straw for one. In Latin, "[Aliquem] nihili, flocci, nauci, pili, teruncii facere." To hold one in no esteem; to defy one as not worth your steel. Not worth a straw. Worthless. In French, "Je n'en donnerais pas un fétu (or un zeste)." Not worth a rap; not worth a pin's point; not worth a fig (q.v.); not worth a twopenny dam, etc. She wears a straw in her ear. She is looking out for another husband. This is a French expression, and refers to the ancient custom of placing a straw between the ears of horses for sale. The last straw. The only hope left; the last penny. 'Tis the last straw that breaks the horse's (or camel's) back. In weighing articles, as salt, tea, sugar, etc., it is the last which turns the scale; and there is an ultimate point of endurance beyond which calamity breaks a man down. To carry off the straw ("Enlever la paille"). To bear off the belle. The pun is between "pal," a slang word for a favourite, and "paille," straw. The French palot means a "pal." Thus Gervais says- "Mais, oncore un coup, man palot." Le Coup d'OEil Purin, p. 64. To catch at a straw. To hope a forlorn hope. A drowning man will catch at a straw. To make bricks without straw. To attempt to do something without the proper and necessary materials. The allusion is to the exaction of the Egyptian taskmasters mentioned in Exodus v. 6-14. Even to the present, "bricks" in India, etc., are made of mud and straw dried in the sun. To make plum-puddings without plums. To stumble at a straw. "Nodos in scirpo quoerere." To look for knots in a bulrush (which has none). To stumble in a plain way. To throw straws against the wind. To contend uselessly and feebly against what is irresistible; to sweep back the Atlantic with a besom. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Slang in 1811 | STRAW. A good woman in the straw; a lying-in woman. His eyes draw straw; his eyes are almost shut, or he is almost asleep: one eye draws straw, and t'other serves the thatcher. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Straw is the dry stalk of a cereal plant. It makes up about half of the yield of a cereal crop such as wheat, oats, rye or barley. In times gone by, it was regarded as a useful by-product of the harvest, but with the advent of the Combine harvester it became more of a burden, almost a nuisance to farmers.
However, there are many signs that straw can be put to many uses, old and new.
Uses of straw
- Bedding and Feed for Animals
- Bedding for Humans
- The straw-filled mattress, also known as palliasse, is still used in many parts of the world.....
- Thatching
- Thatched roofs are becoming increasingly popular, and the skills of a master thatcher are once again in demand.
- Packaging
- Straw is resistant to being crushed and therefore makes a good packing material. A company in France makes a straw mat sealed in thin plastic sheets.
- Straw envelopes for wine bottles have become rarer, but are still to be found at some wine merchants.
- Archery targets
- Heavy gauge straw rope is coiled and sewn tightly together. This is no longer done entirely by hand, but is partially mechanised.
- Horse collars
- Working horses are making a comeback, and there is a need for horse collars stuffed with good quality rye straw. Being a "long straw filler" is a highly skilled job.
- Bricks / cob
- In many parts of the world, straw is used to bind clay. This mixture of clay and straw is known as 'cob'. There are many recipes for making cob.
- See also: Straw bale
- Straw Rope
- Rope made from straw was used by thatchers, in the packaging industry and even in iron foundries.
- Straw Plait for the Hatting Industry
- Until about 100 years ago, thousands of women and children in England were employed in the straw hat making industry. Nowadays the straw plait is imported.
- Bee skeps, linen baskets
- These are made from coiled and bound together continuous lengths of straw. The technique is known as Lip work.
- Horticulture
- Straw is used in cucumber houses and for mushroom growing. In Japan, certain trees are wrapped with straw to protect them from the effects of a hard winter.
- It is also used in ponds to 'soak up' algae.
- The soil under strawberries is covered with straw to protect the ripe berries from dirt.
- Decorative uses of straw
- Corn dollies
- Straw marquetry
- Harvest crosses
- Other
A straw is also an device used for sucking up an liquid.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Straw."
Synonyms: StrawSynonyms: chaff (n), drinking straw (n), husk (n), pale yellow (n), shuck (n), stalk (n), stubble (n), strew (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Levity | Feather, dust, mote, down, thistle, down, flue, cobweb, gossamer, straw, cork, bubble, balloon; float, buoy; ether, air. |
Nonassemblage Dispersion | Verb: disperse, scatter, sow, broadcast, disseminate, diffuse, shed, spread, bestrew, overspread, dispense, disband, disembody, dismember, distribute; apportion; blow off, let out, dispel, cast forth, draught off; strew, straw, strow; ted; spirtle, cast, sprinkle; issue, deal out, retail, utter; resperse, intersperse; set abroach, circumfuse. |
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Screenplays | Kids with no teeth who do nothing but play the banjo eat apple sauce through a straw pork farm animals (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft) With the straw hat (The Smiling Lieutenant; writing credit: Henri Bataille; Felix Dormann) You have just broken the camel's back with that straw! You have ridiculed my brother Racoons (The Honeymooners; writing credit: Herbert Finn; Marvin Marx) When we have a problem, I don't paint Greg in latex and stick a straw up his nose (C.S.I.: Crime Scene Investigation; writing credit: Kenta Fukasaku; Koshun Takami) I haven't got a brain only straw. (The Wizard of Oz; writing credit: L. Frank Baum; Noel Langley) | |
Lyrics | That's the last straw (Feelin' So Good; performing artist: Jennifer Lopez) Stood with a bird on his hat and straw everywhere (The Scarecrow; performing artist: Pink Floyd) And the straw boss said Well, a-bless my soul ("Sixteen Tons"; performing artist: Tennessee Ernie Ford) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Woman of Straw (1964) The Straw Man (1952) Jack Straw (1920) The Last Straw (1920) Straw Foot Hay Foot (1919) | |
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 | (3) color slides show a large sundae, fountain type glass filled with fountain soda (root beer?), soda straw. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |  | A hot pink plate on a light pink-checkered tablecloth. On the plate is a tall, conical glass of a yellow liquid, garnished with a lemon slice, some purple grapes and a straw. In front of the glass is a long stirring spoon. Behind it are a whole pineapple and a green bowl with 2 whole lemons. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Landowner, Fred Pyler, NRCS Conservation Technician, and Trinette Bell (right), NRCS Soil Conservationist, review wheat straw operation. The straw will be used for his own cattle, mixed with feed, used for mulching, and some will be sold. [Slide 97CS3129. Credit: Bob Nichols. |  | In a wind tunnel, technician Brent Schroeder prepares to measure how live plants and straw residue slow windblown soil erosion. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
 | Fire8th Street Fire RehabInstalling straw wattlesFour Rivers Field OfficeLSRDLower Snake River District. Credit: Barry Rose. |  | Straw bale structures protect burned drainage area from flooding and erosion after August 1999 wildfires, near Winnemucca, Nevada. Credit: Unknown. |
 | Measured drawing delineated by Frank R. Leslie, July 1938. (Reproduction Number: HABS, MO,97-SAIGEN,6- Sheet 5 of 13) The Bolduc House, now a museum, is one of a few remaining French Colonial buildings in the upper Mississippi Valley. As described in the HABS written historical data pages, it is constructed of poteaux sur sole, vertical posts set on a sill, with the interstices filled with bouzillage, sticks covered with a mud and straw mixture. In addition to its construction, the large overhanging eaves and steep roof are distinct characteristics of the style. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Badly Wounded Spanish Prisoners, at Brigade Hospital in rear of the lines. : Man in straw hat fired nearly all day at one battalion and stood off Capt. Frederick and his men. This hospital was in a grove of huge mango trees. (July 3, 98). Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | Ship's officers and crewmen pose on deck, while she was serving on the James River, Virginia, August 1864. Commander Alexander C. Rhind, ship's Commanding Officer, is at the extreme right with his foot on the ladder. Standing next to him is Assistant Surgeon Herman P. Babcock. Lieutenant George Dewey is in the right center, wearing a straw hat, directly below the end of the davit. The pivot gun is one of the ship's two 100-pounder Parrot rifles. Note Marine in the left foreground. Credit: NAVY. |  | Straw votes show which way the wind blows. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Straw" by Andy Culpin Commentary: "Farm Straw." | "Straw Flower 2" by Erika Thorpe Commentary: "Pretty flower!." |
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 | Slurping through a straw. |
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Alexander Pope | Behold the child, by nature's kindly law, pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. |
J.g. Holland | Character must stand behind and back up everything -- the sermon, the poem, the picture, the play. None of them is worth a straw without it. |
Mencius | To pretend to satisfy one's desires by possessions is like putting out a fire with straw. |
O. Henry | A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. |
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John Locke | 1690 | It is labour then which puts the greatest part of value upon land, without which it would scarcely be worth any thing: it is to that we owe the greatest part of all its useful products; for all that the straw, bran, bread, of that acre of wheat, is more worth than the product of an acre of as good land, which lies waste, is all the effect of labour: for it is not barely the plough-man's pains, the reaper's and thresher's toil, and the baker's sweat, is to be counted into the bread we eat; the labour of those who broke the oxen, who digged and wrought the iron and stones, who felled and framed the timber employed about the plough, mill, oven, or any other utensils, which are a vast number, requisite to this corn, from its being feed to be sown to its being made bread, must all be charged on the account of labour, and received as an effect of that: nature and the earth furnished only the almost worthless materials, as in themselves. (Second Treatise of Government) |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | They slept not on mattresses two inches thick, but upon straw. |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The furniture had been hustled out through the front garden which was strewn with wisps of straw and rope ends and into the huge vans at the gate |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | He wore white shoes and a flat straw hat. |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | My nurse gave me part of a straw, which I exercised as a pike, having learned the art in my youth |
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Health | Use a straw to drink liquids. (references) | |
During cystoscopy, the doctor uses a cystoscope--an instrument made of a hollow tube about the diameter of a drinking straw with several lenses and a light--to see inside the bladder and urethra. (references) | ||
Business | These include the use of renewables such as straw, hay and woodchips as well as other biomass sources that have reasonable transport costs. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | India | In May a witness in the trial identified Dara Singh as the person who put straw under Staines's car and set it on fire. (references) |
Economic History | Indonesia | Short-fiber pulp can be produced not only from various woods, but also from timber waste, rice straw, bagasse, kenaf, and waste paper. (references) |
Kenya | Investment opportunities exist also in the production of paper from other raw materials such as bagasse, sisal waste, straw and waste paper. (references) | |
Human Rights | Chile | In March British Home Secretary Jack Straw denied Spain's request on the basis of medical exams indicating that Pinochet was unfit mentally and physically to defend himself against the charges; Pinochet returned to Chile where he faced charges in numerous human rights cases. (references) |
Political Economy | THE BAHAMAS | The results of these incentives has been slow, particularly in view of the devastating fire that destroyed a part of downtown Nassau including the straw market (a favorite tourist shopping site specializing in handicrafts and souvenirs), on September 4th. The tourism industry has also declined significantly as a result of the September 11th terrorist attacks against the United States. (references) |
Bahamas | The country's population is approximately 305,000. The country has a developing economy that depends primarily on tourism, which accounts for one-half of the gross domestic product (GDP). In September a fire that broke out in Nassau's Straw Market totally destroyed the tourist landmark along with five other buildings, including the Ministry of Tourism; the economic losses of the fire were considerable. (references) | |
Trade | Japan | Straw packing materials are prohibited. (references) |
Moldova | WESTNIS has 50 percent of the company's equity and purchased Massey Ferguson combines for harvesting peas, barley, wheat, soy, beans, sunflower, and corn, as well as bailer for straw. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | ADMINISTRATION, n. An ingenious abstraction in politics, designed to receive the kicks and cuffs due to the premier or president. A man of straw, proof against bad-egging and dead-catting. |
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| "Straw" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 91.92% of the time. "Straw" is used about 1,298 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 91.92% | 1,193 | 6,487 |
| Noun (proper) | 7.01% | 91 | 34,491 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 0.38% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 0.31% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Unclassified Items | 0.23% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Noun (common) | 0.15% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,298 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "straw" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Straw | Last name | 1,000 | 9,896 |
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| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "straw". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Kish | N/A | Biblical | Straw |
| Tibni | N/A | Biblical | Straw |
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Expressions using "straw": a drowning man will catch at a straw ♦ a drowning man will clutch at a straw ♦ a man of straw ♦ article made of straw ♦ bed of straw ♦ black straw crop ♦ bottom with straw ♦ bottoming with straw ♦ catch at a straw ♦ chopped straw ♦ cover with straw ♦ covering with straw ♦ drink with straw ♦ drinking straw ♦ he does not care a straw ♦ heap of straw ♦ it is not worth a straw ♦ last straw ♦ loose straw ♦ make bricks without straw ♦ man of straw ♦ not care a straw ♦ not matter a straw ♦ not worth a straw ♦ short brush of bound straw ♦ Straw bail ♦ straw bid ♦ straw bidder ♦ straw boss ♦ straw cat ♦ Straw color ♦ Straw drain ♦ straw envelopes(for bottles) ♦ straw fiddle ♦ straw flower ♦ straw foxglove ♦ straw hat ♦ straw itch ♦ straw man ♦ straw matress ♦ straw mattress ♦ straw mushroom ♦ Straw plait ♦ Straw plat ♦ straw poll ♦ straw roof ♦ straw stack ♦ straw that breaks the camel's back ♦ straw to show the wind ♦ straw vote ♦ straw wine ♦ straw work ♦ stuff with straw ♦ that was the last straw ♦ the last straw ♦ thrash over old straw ♦ thresh over old straw ♦ thresh straw ♦ To be in the straw ♦ walking straw. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "straw": straw-banning, straw-based, straw-bedded, straw-board, straw-boatered, straw-brick, straw-burning, straw-chopping, straw-clutcher, straw-clutching, straw-color, straw-color straw-colored straw-coloured, Straw-colored, straw-colour, straw-coloured, straw-covered, Straw-cutter, straw-filled, straw-fired, straw-hat, straw-hats, straw-hatted, straw-like, straw-necked, straw-paper, straw-plait, straw-plaiters, straw-plaiting, straw-poll, straw-roofed, straw-stack, straw-tailed, straw-thatch, straw-topped, straw-weight, straw-yellow. | |
Ending with "straw": poppy-straw. | |
Containing "straw": deep-straw-and-goggling-visitors. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
straw hat | 1,340 | straw flower | 31 |
straw | 225 | set straw | 29 |
straw cowboy hat | 158 | cheese straw recipe | 26 |
straw bale house | 107 | man of straw | 26 |
straw handbag | 106 | turkey in the straw | 25 |
barley straw | 94 | hair set straw style | 24 |
straw dog | 89 | straw mat | 24 |
drinking straw | 69 | straw hat wholesale | 23 |
straw bag | 65 | straw golf hat | 22 |
straw bale home | 64 | straw dispenser | 20 |
house of straw | 63 | hut straw | 20 |
pine straw | 54 | womens straw hat | 18 |
man straw hat | 51 | straw bale building | 18 |
straw bale construction | 51 | hair set straw | 17 |
straw bale | 50 | blower straw | 16 |
cheese straw | 50 | rug straw | 16 |
jack straw | 47 | curl straw | 16 |
straw hat pizza | 38 | oat straw | 15 |
straw purse | 38 | panama straw hat | 15 |
western straw hat | 31 | home straw | 14 |
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| Language | Translations for "straw"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | kashte (strawy), kashtë (chaff, haulm, stubble, thatch). (various references) | |
Arabic | هشيم (broken, chaff), قشي, قش (broom, chaff, haulm, hay, stubble, thatch, whisk), تبني اللون, تبن (chaff, hay, pallet), شرب بالقصبة. (various references) | |
Basque | lasto. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | сламка (windle-straw), сламена шапка, сламен (chaff, leghorn, oaten, strawy), слама (chaff, halm), с цвят на слама (straw-colored, straw-coloured). (various references) | |
Chinese | 芻 (Aphrophora martima, cut grass, fodder, hay), 草 (careless, draft, grass, hasty, manuscript, rough), 秸杆, 稻草 , 吸管 . (various references) | |
Czech | stéblo slámy, slámka, sláma, malièkost (bagatelle, doit, exiguity, penny, pittance, trifle), brèko. (various references) | |
Danish | strå (culm, loose straw), planterest (shive), halm (feeding straw, forage straw, loose straw), foderhalm (feeding straw, forage straw). (various references) | |
Dutch | stro (feeding straw, forage straw, loose straw). (various references) | |
Esperanto | pajlo. (various references) | |
Faeroese | strá, hálmur. (various references) | |
Farsi | پوشال بسته بندی , ماشوره , نی (Cane, Junk, Sprit, Tube), ناچیز (Inconsequential, Inconsiderable, Little, Meager, Negligible, Nugatory, Pelting, Peppercorn, Piddling, Poor, Runty, Scrimp, Teeny, Trifle, Trivial, Vain), کاه (Chaff, Pug), حصیر (Mat, Matting), بوریا (Mat, Matting, Rush). (various references) | |
Finnish | olki (haulm, loose straw, shive), korsi (culm, stem of grass). (various references) | |
French | paille (feeding straw, forage straw, loose straw). (various references) | |
Frisian | strie. (various references) | |
German | Stroh (haulm, litter, thatch). (various references) | |
Greek | άχυρο (chaff, glume), καλαμάκι. (various references) | |
Hebrew | תבן (chaff, provender, stubble), קשית (sipper), קש (chaff, mulch, thatch), גבעול (stalk, stem), גבבה (offal, stubble). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szívószál, szalmaszál (chip), szalma (haulm), szalmakalap. (various references) | |
Indonesian | jerami (hay). (various references) | |
Italian | paglia (chaff, thatch). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 藁 , ストレプトマイシン難聴 (bird of paradise flower, strangeness, stranger, straw hat, Strelitzia reginae, streptomycin deafness, strobe, stroke, stroke play). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | わら, ストロー . (various references) | |
Korean | 밀짚. (various references) | |
Manx | straue. (various references) | |
Occitan | palha. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | awstray.(various references) | |
Portuguese | palha (chaff, haulm). (various references) | |
Romanian | paie, pai (haulm), acoperi (adorn, bedeck, cap, cloak, conceal, cover, deck, defilade, defray, disguise, Harbor, harbour, hide, hood, mantle, obfuscate, overgrow, overlap, overlay, overspread, paint, pepper, protect, roof, sheathe, shelter, sow, span, suffuse, top, varnish, veil). (various references) | |
Russian | солома (haulm). (various references) | |
Scottish | connlach, cònlach (fodder, hay, stubble). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | slamka, slama (thatch). (various references) | |
Spanish | paja (blah, chaff, masturbation, padding, rubbish, tap, thatch, trash, waffle). (various references) | |
Swedish | halm (litter), strå (blade, stalk, stem), halmstrå. (various references) | |
Thai | ตะเกียกตะกาย (grab at a straw). (various references) | |
Turkish | saman (chaff, fodder, halm, haulm, hay). (various references) | |
Turkmen | sypal (thatch). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | солом'яний (strawy), солома (haulm, thatch), соломинка (fescue), бриль, блідо-жовтий (straw-colored, straw-coloured). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | vô giá trị (bum, gewgaw, nude, nugatory, rotten, scrubby, stramineous, trashy, two-bit, waste), tầm thường (characterless, fiddle-faddle, fiddling, inconsequential, jerkwater, picayune, platitudinarian, platitudinous, poor, prosy, soulless, trivial, unideal, uninsprired), rơm nón rơm, mũ rơm cọng rơm, màu rơm nhỏ nhặt, cái chỉ rõ chiều hướng dư luận, bằng rơm vàng nhạt, bù nhìn (guy, puppet). (various references) | |
Welsh | gwelltyn (blade of grass), gwellt (grass, sward). (various references) | |
Yucatec | siit. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | gara, in, in-nu. (various references) |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | agnae, agnam, agnas, agnis, culmo, culmus, festuca, festucam, stipula, stipulam. (various references) |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | faluppa. (various references) |
| Anglo-French | 1100-1600 | paillet. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Genesis Chapter 24, Verse 25 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai eipen autw kai acura kai cortasmata polla par' hmin kai topoV tou katalusai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et addidit dicens palearum quoque et faeni plurimum est apud nos et locus spatiosus ad manendum |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And she addide, seiynge, Of chaf forsothe and of hey myche there is at vs, and a large place to dwelle. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And sayde moreouer vnto him: we haue litter and prauonder ynough and also rowme to lodge in. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | She said moreover unto him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | She said moreover to him, We have both straw and provender enough, and room to lodge in. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And she said, We have a great store of dry grass and cattle-food, and there is room for you. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Genesis Chapter 24, Verse 25 |
| Cebuano | Siya nag-ingon pa kaniya: Ingon usab sa among balay kami adunay dagami ug daghan nga kompay, ug dapit alang sa pagpahulay. |
| Croatian | Još mu doda: "Ima slame i p§iæe kod nas u obilju, a i mjesta za prenoæište." |
| Danish | og videre sagde hun: "Der er rigeligt både af Strå og Foder hos os og Plads til at overnatte " |
| Dutch | Voorts had zij tot hem gezegd: Ook is er stro en veel voeders bij ons, ook plaats om te vernachten. |
| Finnish | Ja hän sanoi hänelle vielä: "Meillä on runsaasti olkia ja rehua; myöskin yösijaa on meillä antaa". |
| French | Elle lui dit encore: Il y a chez nous de la paille et du fourrage en abondance, et aussi de la place pour passer la nuit. |
| German | und sagte weiter zu ihm: Es ist auch viel Stroh und Futter bei uns und Raum genug, zu beherbergen. |
| Haitian Creole | Li di l' anko: -Lakay nou, nou gen kont pay zèb pou chamo ou yo. Wa jwenn kote pou ou pase nwit la tou. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | "Di rumah kami ada tempat bermalam untuk Bapak dan juga banyak jerami dan makanan ternak." |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Dan lagi kata dayang itu kepadanya: Adalah pada kami rumput kering dan makanan untapun cukup dan tempat tumpanganpun ada. |
| Italian | E soggiunse: «C'è paglia e foraggio in quantità da noi e anche posto per passare la notte». |
| Maori | A ka mea ano ia ki a ia, He nui a matou kakau witi, me a matou otaota hei kai, me tetahi wahi hoki hei moenga. |
| Norwegian | Så sa hun til ham: Det er fullt op både av halm og fôr hos oss, og det er også rum til å overnatte. |
| Portuguese | Disse-lhe mais: Temos palha e forragem bastante, e lugar para pousar. |
| Rumanian | Wi i -a zis mai departe: ,,Avem paie wi nutrey din belwug, wi este wi loc de gqzduit peste noapte.`` |
| Swedish | Och hon sade ytterligare till honom: "Vi hava rikligt med både halm och foder; natthärbärge kan du ock få." |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "straw": strawberries, strawberry, strawed, strawflower, strawflowers, strawhat, strawier, strawiest, strawing, straws, strawy. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "straw": bedstraw, jackstraw, windlestraw. (additional references) | |
Words containing "straw": bedstraws, jackstraws, windlestraws. (additional references) | |
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"Straw" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Ostra, Scraw, seraw, sgrew, spraw, Stacwq, steaw, stlaw, stra, strag, stran, striw, strow, traw. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: swart, warts. | |
| Words within the letters "a-r-s-t-w" | |
-1 letter: arts, rats, raws, star, staw, swat, tars, taws, tsar, twas, wars, wart, wast, wats. | |
-2 letters: ars, art, ras, rat, raw, sat, saw, tar, tas, taw, twa, war, was, wat. | |
-3 letters: ar, as, at, aw, ta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-r-s-t-w" | |
+1 letter: rawest, straws, strawy, swarth, swarty, tawers, thraws, trawls, waster, wastry, waters, wraths. | |
+2 letters: brawest, fretsaw, outwars, postwar, steward, strawed, swarths, swarthy, swather, swatter, | |
