oat-straw

The shaggy man thought they would taste better than the oat-straw, so he walked over to get some.

Love Letters 2010

He had an oat-straw in his mouth, which he chewed slowly as if it tasted good; but it didn't.

Love Letters 2010

The very common maison de torchis was a post-and-beam house with the spaces between walls filled with various mixtures of clay, oat-straw, chopped hay, moss, or hair, stiffened with horizontal wood poles called palots or palissons.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

The surly bee-keeper saved a comb of honey for us, the dairy women had a sip of cream for us, the cowboys showed off for us, riding bull-calves or vaulting an old cow's horns, and the old shepherd Ino showed us how to make piping flutes of oat-straw.

'Lavinia' 2008

The very common maison de torchis was a post-and-beam house with the spaces between walls filled with various mixtures of clay, oat-straw, chopped hay, moss, or hair, stiffened with horizontal wood poles called palots or palissons.

Champlain's Dream David Hackett Fischer 2008

At last a match did burn up, and its flame lit up for a moment the fur of his coat, his hand with the gold ring on the bent forefinger, and the snow-sprinkled oat-straw that stuck out from under the drugget.

Master and Man 2003

They used oat-straw, grass, and cane which had been split and dried and soaked in hot water until it was pliant, and they wove it into hats.

Slave Narratives: a Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves Oklahoma Narratives Work Projects Administration

Lois was charming, in her sun-bonnet; I looked knowing in my Canadian oat-straw.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 Various

Taking good English or meadow hay as the standard of comparison, and calling that one, 4.79 times the weight of rye-straw, or 3.83 times the weight of oat-straw, contains the same amount of nutritive matter; that is, it would take

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings

In the cove there is a small sandy beach, upon which the waves have drifted, and deposited a large quantity of oat-straw, and feathers shed by the millions of water-fowls which sport upon the bay.

What I Saw in California Edwin Bryant