straw.

The third game mentioned by Father Brebeuf was that which was called straw.

Indian Games : an historical research Andrew McFarland Davis

They may be stacked up to three layers thick provided each layer is covered with a protective material such as straw.

Chapter 7 1992

At the farther end was a heap of hay, which he took for another kind of straw.

Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864

We have mummy wheat, -- cloth of papyrus, which is a kind of straw.

Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

You make use of churches, pulpits, parsons, Bibles, and anti-Popery lectures to secure the election for the brethren; but the Methodists secure the same gift by means of some 'straw.'

The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Entertainment And Special Instructions Of The Catholic Male And Female Servants Of The United States. Hugh Quigley 1851

Mr Loiter stopping himself suddenly, and remembering that he was addressing himself to a lady, satisfied his energy at last by the use of the word 'straw.'

The Way We Live Now Anthony Trollope 1848

The result is second generation bioethanol produced from residuals from agriculture such as straw.

Qwaider Planet 2009

"He has to put one up, but it's pretty liable to be 'straw.'

El Diablo Brayton Norton 1914