reed sheaf
Chiefly English regional (south-western ) (now rare )
noun
A bundle of unthreshed wheat straw with the ears removed, used especially for thatching.
Origin
Early 18th century; earliest use found in Persecution Expos'd.
- at one's disposal
- at one's earliest convenience
- at (one's) ease
- at one's elbow
- at one's fingertips
- at one's leisure
- at one's mother's (or father's) knee
- at one's (own) risk
- at one's peril
- at one time
- atonic
- atony
- atop
- atopic
- atopy
- -ator
- at (or by) the hands (or hand) of
- at (or in) a pinch
- at (or in) close quarters
- at (or in) law
- at (or in) one fell swoop
- at (or on) short (or a moment's) notice
- at (or on) the heels of
- at (or to) heel
- infructescence