A small particle of straw or chaff, a ‘mote’.
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释义 | society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > straw > a single straw or particle of straw (7) strawc950 A small particle of straw or chaff, a ‘mote’. fescue1377 A straw, rush, twig; a small piece of straw, a mote in the eye (with reference to Matthew vii. 3). Hence, a thing of little importance. Obsolete. mote1550 A straw, a single stalk of hay; a slender twig or rod. Now chiefly English regional (south-western) and Irish English. haulm1552 collective singular. The stems or stalks of various cultivated plants, as peas, beans, vetches, hops, potatoes, etc., now less commonly of corn or… feasetraw1595 = fescue, n. (see quots.). straw-mote1747 a single stalk of straw. Mott1963 Used attributively with reference to Mott's theories of semiconduction; Mott insulator n. a material which does not conduct electricity because… |
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