rye strawn.

Brit.

/ˈrʌɪ strɔː/, U.S.

/ˈraɪ ˌstrɔ/,

/ˈraɪ ˌstrɑ/

Forms: see rye n.¹ and straw n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rye n.¹, straw n.¹

Etymology: < rye n.¹ + straw n.¹ Compare West Frisian roggestrie , Middle Dutch rogghestro (Dutch roggestroo ), Middle Low German roggenstrō , German Roggenstroh (16th cent. as †rockenstroh ), all in sense 1.

1. The dried stalks or stems of rye.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > straw > types of

stubble1382

rye straw?1523

kex1550

helm1669

broom-straw1785

Leghorn1817

Tuscan grass1830

buntal1910

baku1927

sisal1928

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvii^v Than to make a couerynge of whete strawe or rye strawe, to couer & house the hyue about.

1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 20^v Rye straw vp stack, least thetcher lack.

1607 N. Geffe tr. O. de Serres Perfect Vse Silke-wormes 40 The wilde reedes and bulrishes of marish places and pooles may serue, yea rie straw, which is got for a small price.

1703 J. Moore Englands Interest (ed. 2) 105 Take four or five good handful of wheat or rye straw drawn out of the Sheaf.

1763 J. Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 187 I gave my oxen hay mixed with an equal quantity of rye-straw.

1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 799 When this cannot be had in sufficient quantity, rye-straw may be substituted.

1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. (1862) xiii. §1. 833 One ton of..rye straw contains 60 lb. of ash.

1923 B. G. Guerney tr. I. A. Bunin Dreams of Chang 173 Upon the threshing floor, in the fresh wind, there was a pleasant smell of chaff, of new rye straw.

1956 J. D. Squires Granite State of U.S. I. xiii. 298 Straw hat-making at first used rye straw that was locally raised, but later palm leaves were widely employed for this purpose.

1991 D. G. Wetherell & I. R. A. Kmet Homes in Alberta i. 25 While rye straw was traditionally used for thatching, slough grass was the comparable material available in Alberta.

2. A single dried straw or stem of rye. Also figurative: †(a) a weak, insignificant person (obsolete rare); (b) U.S. not to care (also give) a rye straw for: to care nothing for (now rare).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance

nekardc1450

man of clouts, king of clouts1467

dandiprat1556

Tom Thumb1579

minim1590

pygmy?1592

titmouse1596

gnatling1614

rye straw1615

nazzard1619

whisk1629

whifling1640

snifty1660

whippersnapper1674

nick-ninny1699

little me1711

squita1825

lightweight1831

lay figure1835

whiffet1839

pinkeen1850

huckleberry1868

bush leaguer1906

knibloch1915

1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises i. F j. Think'st thou this rye-strew can ore-rule my arme?

1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 156 A firm pebble..having a smooth hole through it about the bigness of a Rye-straw.

1808 J. Smith in A. Loudon Select. Interesting Narr. Outrages Indians I. 135 They had also brought with them small cane or reed, about the size of a rye straw, which they made sharp at the end like a pen.

1828 Casket 16 Feb. 81/2 You called him rusty fusty fudge, and old codger, and said you did not care a rye straw more for him than you did for yourself.

1830 Deb. in Congr. 13 Jan. 522/1 The stock speculations of former times were to this but the amusements of boys blowing up bubbles with rye straws in tumblers of water.

1852 F. C. Woodworth Budget of Willow Lane Stories 166 I would not give a rye straw for a man of this sort.

1868 Canada Farmer 15 Apr. 115/3 The canes of each stand now number seventy to one hundred, thrown from a single centre, just as the twenty to thirty rye straws proceed from a single grain.

1900 G. M. Gallaher Vassar Stories (1970) 97 I felt awfully to have you know, for I wanted your good opinion, but I didn't care a rye straw for my own disgrace.

1977 R. E. F. Smith Peasant Farming in Muscovy i. iii. 54 Ropes were made of bast or from roots (as well as from cultivated hemp and from rye straws).

2002 A. C. Funderburg Sundae Best 107 For farmers, selling rye straws to soda fountains was a profitable sideline, since they planted rye to feed their chickens and cows, anyway.

Compounds

attributive. In the sense ‘made of rye straw’, as rye-straw hat, rye-straw thatch, etc.

ΚΠ

a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 136 You Sun-burn'd Sicklemen.., Make holly day: your Rye-straw hats put on.

1802 G. Greene Rel. Several Circumstances which occurred in Province of Lower Normandy 263 They bind them together with a rye straw band.

1846 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Dec. 418 No. 976, a rye straw bonnet, by Jane M. Atwood, of Salem, Washington county, New York.

1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 163 One night he took twelve of us and..sneaked through a mile of neglected shrubbery and a couple of rock-quarries and into a rye-straw village.

1997 B. Cornwell Excalibur 21 The hilltop hall was made of oak and roofed with rye-straw thatch.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rye straw
释义	rye strawn. Brit. /ˈrʌɪ strɔː/, U.S. /ˈraɪ ˌstrɔ/, /ˈraɪ ˌstrɑ/ Forms: see rye n.¹ and straw n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: rye n.¹, straw n.¹ Etymology: < rye n.¹ + straw n.¹ Compare West Frisian roggestrie , Middle Dutch rogghestro (Dutch roggestroo ), Middle Low German roggenstrō , German Roggenstroh (16th cent. as †rockenstroh ), all in sense 1. 1. The dried stalks or stems of rye. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > straw > types of stubble1382 rye straw?1523 kex1550 helm1669 broom-straw1785 Leghorn1817 Tuscan grass1830 buntal1910 baku1927 sisal1928 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxvii^v Than to make a couerynge of whete strawe or rye strawe, to couer & house the hyue about. 1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 20^v Rye straw vp stack, least thetcher lack. 1607 N. Geffe tr. O. de Serres Perfect Vse Silke-wormes 40 The wilde reedes and bulrishes of marish places and pooles may serue, yea rie straw, which is got for a small price. 1703 J. Moore Englands Interest (ed. 2) 105 Take four or five good handful of wheat or rye straw drawn out of the Sheaf. 1763 J. Mills Syst. Pract. Husb. I. 187 I gave my oxen hay mixed with an equal quantity of rye-straw. 1805 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. II. 799 When this cannot be had in sufficient quantity, rye-straw may be substituted. 1857 W. A. Miller Elements Chem.: Org. (1862) xiii. §1. 833 One ton of..rye straw contains 60 lb. of ash. 1923 B. G. Guerney tr. I. A. Bunin Dreams of Chang 173 Upon the threshing floor, in the fresh wind, there was a pleasant smell of chaff, of new rye straw. 1956 J. D. Squires Granite State of U.S. I. xiii. 298 Straw hat-making at first used rye straw that was locally raised, but later palm leaves were widely employed for this purpose. 1991 D. G. Wetherell & I. R. A. Kmet Homes in Alberta i. 25 While rye straw was traditionally used for thatching, slough grass was the comparable material available in Alberta. 2. A single dried straw or stem of rye. Also figurative: †(a) a weak, insignificant person (obsolete rare); (b) U.S. not to care (also give) a rye straw for: to care nothing for (now rare). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > importance > unimportance > [noun] > one who is unimportant > of little importance nekardc1450 man of clouts, king of clouts1467 dandiprat1556 Tom Thumb1579 minim1590 pygmy?1592 titmouse1596 gnatling1614 rye straw1615 nazzard1619 whisk1629 whifling1640 snifty1660 whippersnapper1674 nick-ninny1699 little me1711 squita1825 lightweight1831 lay figure1835 whiffet1839 pinkeen1850 huckleberry1868 bush leaguer1906 knibloch1915 1615 T. Heywood Foure Prentises i. F j. Think'st thou this rye-strew can ore-rule my arme? 1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. iv. 156 A firm pebble..having a smooth hole through it about the bigness of a Rye-straw. 1808 J. Smith in A. Loudon Select. Interesting Narr. Outrages Indians I. 135 They had also brought with them small cane or reed, about the size of a rye straw, which they made sharp at the end like a pen. 1828 Casket 16 Feb. 81/2 You called him rusty fusty fudge, and old codger, and said you did not care a rye straw more for him than you did for yourself. 1830 Deb. in Congr. 13 Jan. 522/1 The stock speculations of former times were to this but the amusements of boys blowing up bubbles with rye straws in tumblers of water. 1852 F. C. Woodworth Budget of Willow Lane Stories 166 I would not give a rye straw for a man of this sort. 1868 Canada Farmer 15 Apr. 115/3 The canes of each stand now number seventy to one hundred, thrown from a single centre, just as the twenty to thirty rye straws proceed from a single grain. 1900 G. M. Gallaher Vassar Stories (1970) 97 I felt awfully to have you know, for I wanted your good opinion, but I didn't care a rye straw for my own disgrace. 1977 R. E. F. Smith Peasant Farming in Muscovy i. iii. 54 Ropes were made of bast or from roots (as well as from cultivated hemp and from rye straws). 2002 A. C. Funderburg Sundae Best 107 For farmers, selling rye straws to soda fountains was a profitable sideline, since they planted rye to feed their chickens and cows, anyway. Compounds attributive. In the sense ‘made of rye straw’, as rye-straw hat, rye-straw thatch, etc. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) iv. i. 136 You Sun-burn'd Sicklemen.., Make holly day: your Rye-straw hats put on. View more context for this quotation 1802 G. Greene Rel. Several Circumstances which occurred in Province of Lower Normandy 263 They bind them together with a rye straw band. 1846 Jrnl. Franklin Inst. Dec. 418 No. 976, a rye straw bonnet, by Jane M. Atwood, of Salem, Washington county, New York. 1909 ‘O. Henry’ Options 163 One night he took twelve of us and..sneaked through a mile of neglected shrubbery and a couple of rock-quarries and into a rye-straw village. 1997 B. Cornwell Excalibur 21 The hilltop hall was made of oak and roofed with rye-straw thatch. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1523
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