strawe

Definitions

Obsolete spelling of straw.

alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

“a waze of strawe in his hande.”

“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?”

“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”

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