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Meaning of straw tick | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.
  2. The empty mattress bag of such a mattress.

Equivalents

Svenska halmmadrass

Examples

“A straw tick was as important to a bed as the feather. A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

straw vote straw wine straw-bed straw-grasping straw-hat straw-necked ibis

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