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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Straw \Straw\, v. t.
To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow. --Chaucer.
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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Straw \Straw\, n. [OE. straw, stre, stree, AS. stre['a]w, from
the root of E. strew; akin to OFries. str[=e], D. stroo, G.
stroh, OHG. str[=o], Icel. str[=a], Dan. straa, Sw. str[*a].
[root]166. See Strew.]
1. A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc.,
especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of
buckwheat, beans, and pease.
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2. The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of
grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
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3. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing;
a mere trifle.
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I set not a straw by thy dreamings. --Chaucer.
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Note: Straw is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, straw-built, straw-crowned,
straw-roofed, straw-stuffed, and the like.
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Man of straw, an effigy formed by stuffing the garments of
a man with straw; hence, a fictitious person; an
irresponsible person; a puppet.
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WordNet Straw
adj : of a pale yellow color like straw; straw colored
n 1: 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
[syn: chaff, husk, shuck, stalk, stubble]
3: a yellow tint; yellow diluted with white [syn: pale yellow]
4: a thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the
mouth [syn: drinking straw]
v 1: cover or provide with or as if with straw; "cows were
strawed to weather the snowstorm"
2: spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all
over the carpet" [syn: strew]

Moby Dictionary
a continental , a curse , a damn , a darn , a hoot , adjutage ,
afterglow , afterimage , air , anthrophore , aureate , auric , axis ,
bagatelle , balance , barley , bauble , bean , beige , bestrew , bibelot ,
bird seed , bit , bole , bran , brass farthing , broadcast , bubble ,
buff , buff-yellow , butt , butt end , button , canary , canary-yellow ,
candle ends , cane , carpophore , cat food , catheter , caudex ,
caulicle , caulis , cent , chaff , chicken feed , chip , chop , citron ,
citron-yellow , cobweb , cork , corn , cream , creamy , culm , curio ,
debris , detritus , disseminate , dog food , down , drainpipe , dust ,
eatage , ecru , efflux tube , end , ensilage , ether , fag end , fairy ,
fallow , farce , farthing , feather , feed , fig , filings , fire hose ,
flaxen , fleabite , flue , flue pipe , fluff , foam , fodder , folderol ,
footstalk , forage , fossil , fribble , frippery , froth , funicule ,
funiculus , funnel , fuzz , garden hose , gas pipe , gaud , gewgaw ,
gilded , gilt , gimcrack , gold , gold-colored , golden , gossamer ,
grain , hair , halfpenny , haulm , hay , hill of beans , holdover , hose ,
hosepipe , husks , jest , joke , kickshaw , knickknack , knickknackery ,
leafstalk , leavings , leftovers , lemon , lemon-yellow , luteolous ,
lutescent , mash , meal , minikin , mockery , molehill , mote , nipple ,
oats , ocherish , ocherous , ochery , ochreous , ochroid , ochrous ,
ochry , odds and ends , offscourings , or , organ pipe , orts , parings ,
pasturage , pasture , pedicel , peduncle , peppercorn , pet food ,
petiole , petiolule , petiolus , picayune , pin , pinch of snuff ,
pinprick , pipe , pipeline , pipette , piping , primrose ,
primrose-colored , primrose-yellow , provender , rags , rap , red cent ,
reed , reed pipe , refuse , relics , remainder , remains , remnant ,
residue , residuum , rest , roach , row of pins , rubbish , ruins , rump ,
rush , saffron , saffron-colored , saffron-yellow , sallow ,
sand-colored , sandy , sawdust , scatter , scourings , scraps , scratch ,
scratch feed , seedstalk , shadow , shavings , shit , siamese ,
siamese connection , silage , siphon , slops , snap , sneeshing ,
snorkel , soil pipe , sou , sow , spear , spire , sponge , spume , stalk ,
standpipe , steam pipe , stem , stipe , stock , straw-colored , stubble ,
stump , survival , sweepings , swill , tap , thistledown , tigella , toy ,
trace , trifle , trinket , tube , tubing , tubulation , tubule , tubulet ,
tubulure , tuppence , two cents , twopence , vestige , waste ,
waste pipe , water pipe , wheat , whim-wham , xanthic , xanthous ,
yellow , yellowish

Straw Used in brick-making (Ex. 5:7-18). Used figuratively in Job 41:27; Isa. 11:7; 25:10; 65:25.