单词 | wheat-straw |
释义 | > as lemmaswheat-straw wheat-straw n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > for thatching > wheat-straw haulmc825 reed1415 wheat-straw?1523 reed straw1628 wheat-reed1811 14.. Stockholm Med. MS. ii. 755 in Anglia XVIII. 325 His stalke is gret as whete-stro. ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xvi The whete strawe that they purpose to make thacke of. 1789 T. Wright Meth. Watering Meadows (1790) 43 The hay is almost as long, coarse, and dry, as wheat-straw. 1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon iii. 90 100 sheaves of wheat-straw reed. 1830 J. Lindley Introd. Nat. Syst. Bot. 303 It is..said that Wheat-straw may be melted into a colourless glass with the blow-pipe. c1903 O. Read in Library Southern Lit. (1909) X. 4374 The Squatter, with his wheat-straw beard, his hay hair and his autumn leaf complexion. 1941 L. B. Lyon Tomorrow is Revealing 44 A son with a bird's glint, and wheat-straw hair. < as lemmas |
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