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English
Noun
strawe (countable and uncountable, plural strawes)
- Obsolete spelling of straw.
1565, Thomas Harding, A Confutation of a Booke Intituled An Apologie of the Churche of England:a waze of strawe in his hande.
1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors, T. Bensley, published 1814, page 66:Bene Lightmans to thy quarromes in what lipken hast thou lipped in this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell.
Good morrow to thy bodye, in what house hast thou lyne in all night, whether in a bed or in the strawe?
1570, Thomas Naogeorgus, translated by Barnabe Googe, The Popish Kingdome:Some others get a rotten wheele, all worne and cast aside,
Which covered round about with strawe, and tow, they closely hide:
And caryed to some mountaines top, being all with fire light,
They hurle it down with violence, when darke appeares the night
Middle English
Noun
strawe
- Alternative form of straw