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rye-straw
[rye n.1 Cf. MDu. rogghestro, Du. roggestroo, G. rock(en)-, rogg(en)stroh, WFris. rog(ge)strie.]
a. The dried haulm of rye.
b. A single straw of this; also fig. a weak insignificant person.
1523Fitzherb. Husb. §122 Than to make a couerynge of wheate-strawe or rye-strawe, to couer and house the hyue aboute. 1615Heywood Foure Prent. i. F j. Think'st thou this rye-strew can ore-rule my arme? 1686Plot Staffordsh. 156 A firm pebble..having a smooth hole through it about the bigness of a Rye-straw. 1763Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 187, I gave my oxen hay mixed with an equal quantity of rye-straw. 1805R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 799 When this cannot be had in sufficient quantity, rye-straw may be substituted. 1857Miller Elem. Chem., Org. xiii. §1 (1862) 833 One ton of..rye straw contains 60 lb. of ash.
attrib.1610Shakes. Temp. iv. i. 136 You Sun-burn'd Sicklemen.., Make holly day: your Rye-straw hats put on. |