| 单词 | straw-death |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstraw-death straw-death n. (Sc. strae-death) [compare Norwegian straadaude, Danish straadød] a natural death in one's bed. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > natural death (to die) a natural deatha1522 straw-death1787 natural causes1834 1787 R. Burns Death & Dr. Hornbook xxv, in Poems (new ed.) 63 Whare I kill'd ane, a fair strae-death, By loss o' blood, or want o' breath. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. iv. 145 Dead is he, a bed-death,..A straw-death, a cow's-death. 1868 G. MacDonald Robert Falconer I. xxiii. 305 She's gane, an' no by a fair strae-deith (death on one's own straw) either. < as lemmas |
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