"Straw" is a word in ENGLISH
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a
mere trifle.
A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc.,
especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat,
beans, and pease.
To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of
grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
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A grizzled old man was eating in a truck stop when three Hell's Angels' bikers walked in. The first walked up to the old man, pushed his cigarette into the old man's pie and then took a seat at the counter. The second walked up to the old man, spat into the old man's milk and then he too took a seat at the counter. The third walked up to the old man, turned over the old man's plate, and then he took a seat at the counter. Without a word of protest, the old man quietly left the diner. Shortly thereafter, one of the bikers said to the waitress, "Humph, not much of a man, was he?" The waitress replied, "Not much of a truck driver either, he just backed his big-rig over three motorcycles."
A genus of fleshy Alcyonaria, its polyps somewhat resembling flowers with eight fringed rays. The term was also formerly used …
Read the complete definitionA genus of water fowls, of the order Anseres, including certain species of fresh-water ducks.
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Read the complete definitionA cruciferous herb of certain species of Dentaria; -- called also toothwort, tooth violet, or pepper root.
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Read the complete definitionA species of es-tate less than freehold, where lands and tenements are let by one man to another, to have …
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