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English
Etymology
As strawen; compare papern, silvern.
Pronunciation
Adjective
strawn (not comparable)
- Alternative spelling of strawen
- 1609: Charles Butler, The Feminine Monarchie; or, A Treatise Concerning Bees, page 34 (1634 revision)
- In some countries they use strawn Hives.
Scots
Etymology 1
A variant of strand (“small brook, gutter”).
Noun
strawn
- (Western Scotland) gutter
Etymology 2
From Proto-Germanic *strangiz.
Noun
strawn
- string (“a number of objects strung on a thread”).
, volume II (K–Z), Edinburgh:
University Press; for
W & C Tait,
; London:
Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green,
→OCLC,
page 498, column 2:
Further reading
- “strawn”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W Grant and D D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.