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We found 7 dictionaries that define the word strawing:

General (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. strawing: Merriam-Webster
  2. strawing: Collins English Dictionary
  3. strawing: Vocabulary.com
  4. strawing: Wordnik
  5. strawing: Wiktionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. strawing: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. strawing: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See straw as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Straw)

noun:  (countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
noun:  (uncountable) 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.
noun:  (countable) A drinking straw.
noun:  (uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
noun:  (figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
noun:  A straw owner
adjective:  Made of straw.
adjective:  Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
adjective:  (figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
verb:  To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
verb:  (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
noun:  A surname transferred from the nickname.
▸ Also see straw


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