strood

Indeed ricks have to be covered with thatch, but "the work for this temporary purpose cannot compare with that of the old roof-thatcher, with his 'strood' or 'frail' to hold the loose straw, and his spars -- split hazel rods pointed at each end -- that with a dexterous twist in the middle make neat pegs for the fastening of the straw rope that he cleverly twists with a simple implement called a 'wimble.'

Vanishing England 1892

Maybe, with the strood being pathun "pets," what had happened had been no more than the equivalent of someone being snapped at by a terrier in a park.

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Nearby the strood stood tall and glittering in artificial sunlight: grown strong on the cancer it had first fallen in love with then eaten out of my body, as was its nature.

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"Not enough to feed strood, here," the automaton told me.

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The strood, its own curiol matrix cut by that of the pathun, lay nearby like a pile of bloody seaweed.

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I stared down and saw the strood -- it had to be the same one -- rippling across the street and pausing there.

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The strood was still waiting as I peered out of the hotel lobby.

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There were aliens everywhere, a lot of them strood.

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"This happened because I was running away from a strood that wants to eat me."

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After forty-six hours in the space station, I was managing, by the feedback techniques that load into your mind like an instruction manual the moment the spines begin to dig in, to limit the gilst's vocabulary to my feeble one, and thought I'd got a handle on it, until my encounter with the strood.

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