straw

Meaning

Noun

1. A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
2. Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
3. A drinking straw.
4. A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
5. Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
6. A straw owner

Adj

1. Made of straw.
2. Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
3. Imaginary, but presented as real.

Verb

1. To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
2. (obsolete,slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

Synonyms

hay

grass

thatch

chaff

haulm

husk

stubble

strew

drinking straw

stalk

shuck

bestrew

rice straw

pale yellow

cane

wheat

splinter

sprinkle

stem

stipe

straw hat

tube

untamed

weed

whistle

wild

worthless

yellowish

straw-colored

dry grass

made of straw

thatching grass

pennywhistle

bespangle

tallgrass

chips

culm

dot

dry

dust

fife

fodder

glume

herbs

horn

mattress

pipe

reed

scape

siren

Pronounced as (IPA)

/stɹɔː/

Etymology

From Middle English straw, from Old English strēaw, from Proto-West Germanic *strau, from Proto-Germanic *strawą (“that which is strewn”). Cognate with Dutch stro, Walloon strin, German Stroh, Norwegian and Swedish strå, Albanian shtrohë (“kennel”).

Sentences

Pitch the straw through the door of the stable .