Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The fallen needles of pines.
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Examples
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Beside it dangled the rope threads of a hammock that had rotted, fallen, and partly turned to mulch in the damp pine-straw.
Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998
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Beside it dangled the rope threads of a hammock that had rotted, fallen, and partly turned to mulch in the damp pine-straw.
Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998
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Beside it dangled the rope threads of a hammock that had rotted, fallen, and partly turned to mulch in the damp pine-straw.
Summer of Deliverance Christopher Dickey 1998
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Then collecting pine-straw and palmetto leaves we made a cleanly resting place.
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There was no furniture except hewn blocks, and in two of the corners, what the sailors called "bunks," raised a foot above the ground, covered with beds of pine-straw.
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In a short time every combustible was removed, pine-straw, decayed branches, and tufts of wire-grass even, were pulled up and thrown beyond the path.
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Or the ground may be mulched with pine-straw, grass, leaves or other suitable material.
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Here, pine-straw can be had plentifully for the purpose.
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He then pitched the cartload of tubs, buckets, and piggins out into the road, and gathering dried leaves and pine-straw, spread them in the bottom of the cart.
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He then pitched the cartload of tubs, buckets, and piggins out into the road, and gathering dried leaves and pine-straw, spread them in the bottom of the cart.
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