straw bed

Definitions

1. 1

   Alternative form of strawbed.

   • You see the boy leaping from his straw bed in the dark at the first news of a snow-fall, and hurrying forth with borrowed tools to face the biting wind for the chance of earning the meal for which he has been hungering for days;
   • The best way to do this is to lay a flock bed on top of a straw bed.
2. 2

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically

   Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straw, bed.

   • They really are better off indoors, I think, and the collective sigh of pleasure from the newly housed ewes as they gratefully subside into a deep, dry, straw bed, tells me that they agree.
   • But if your ground is sticky clay, the furrowing or straw bed methods will work better than this one.

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