Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The fallen needles of pines.

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Examples

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Then collecting pine-straw and palmetto leaves we made a cleanly resting place.

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • 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.

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • 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.

    Bond and Free: A Tale of the South 1984

  • Or the ground may be mulched with pine-straw, grass, leaves or other suitable material.

    The Pecan and its Culture 1920

  • Here, pine-straw can be had plentifully for the purpose.

    Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906

  • 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.

    The House Behind the Cedars 1900

  • 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.

    The House Behind the Cedars 1895

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