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To strew or spread (newly mown grass, for example) for drying.— Rex Parker Does the NYT Crossword Puzzle
I'm very certain that if I, joe citizen, did what these cops did then I'm sure I would have a high cash bail and would be awaiting trial for a strew of charges the Concord PD would certainly stack charges against me.
But Patroclus gave orders to his companions and female domestics to strew, with all haste, a thick couch for Phœnix; and they, obedient, spread a bed as he desired,--sheep-skins, coverlets, and the fine fabric of flax: there lay the old man, and awaited heavenly Morn.— The Iliad of Homer (1873)
Their language is free from bad rhetoric; the reasoning is cogent, but there is an absence of emotion and imagination; they contain few quotable things, and no passages of commanding eloquence, such as strew the orations of Webster and Burke.— Brief History of English and American Literature

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