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Straw meaning

A dried stalk of a cereal plant. | 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. | A drinking straw.

Example sentences (20)

He said due to scarcity and high cost of wheat straw, last year paddy straw was for months at the university’s dairy farm without any adverse effects on the productivity and health of animals.

If you already own the old Hydro Flask straw lid, I will say with the authority of someone who's diligently used both that the Flex Straw cap leaks less.

Straw poll, also known as straw ballot, is usually an ad hoc poll carried out to determine the slant of opinion on an issue or popularity of an individual or group of persons within a community.

The ultimate Straw Hat fanboy, Bartolomeo has idealized Luffy ever since he saw the Straw Hat escape an execution with a smile on his face.

Just as high levels of vomitoxin hurt the wheat grain values, if you are buying straw for feed that is high in vomitoxin, this may need to be considered in the straw price.

Upon making contact with the occupants, Deputy McDowell observed copper filing and a clear plastic straw on the lap of the passenger as well as a green cut straw in the passenger side door.

Tervis, Nalgene, Hydroflask, Swell, BPA-free plastic, glass, straw, no straw, squeeze bottle.

Yet while Malice doesn’t straw-man Taylor himself, he does straw-man Taylor’s arguments.

Children above the age of four can try chewing gum, drinking through a straw or blowing bubbles through a straw.

Put pill in end of drinking straw, force mouth open with pencil and blow down drinking straw.

She watched as Walker snorted cocaine from a straw and then placed the straw next to Hollins, the girl told officers, court documents say.

Straw Market Manager Basil Huyler drops down dead with a massive heart attack after being verbally attacked by FNM vultures in the Straw Market.

Combines generally chop and disperse straw as they move through the field, though the chopping is disabled when the straw is to be baled, and chaff collectors are sometimes used to prevent the dispersal of weed seed throughout a field.

It is usually gathered and stored in a straw bale, which is a bundle of straw tightly bound with twine or wire.

The amount of weeds in the straw affects its marketability, and this, coupled with market prices, determines whether the farmer chooses to harvest the flax straw.

The wheatsheaf was used on the crest to represent agriculture and the supply of straw used in the local hatting industry (the straw-plaiting industry was brought to Luton by a group of Scots under the protection of Sir John Napier of Luton Hoo ).

This can be performed by three machines: one for threshing out the seed, one for breaking and separating the straw (stem) from the fiber, and one for further separating the broken straw and matter from the fiber.

To investigate this, Daniel experimented by puncturing the wall of a pipe with a small open ended straw and noted that the height to which the fluid rose up the straw was related to fluid's pressure in the pipe.

When first erected, though the grain was equally well separated from the straw, yet as the whole of the straw, chaff, and grain, was indiscriminately thrown into a confused heap, the work could only with propriety be considered as half executed.

Whilst the majority of the grain falls through the concave, the straw is carried by a set of "walkers" to the rear of the machine, allowing any grain and chaff still in the straw to fall below.