Straw bed
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Alternative form of strawbed. alt-of, alternative
"You see the boy leaping from his straw bed in the dark at the first news of a snow-fall, and hurrying forth with borrowed tools to face the biting wind for the chance of earning the meal for which he has been hungering for days;"
- 2 Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straw, bed.
"They really are better off indoors, I think, and the collective sigh of pleasure from the newly housed ewes as they gratefully subside into a deep, dry, straw bed, tells me that they agree."
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More examples"You see the boy leaping from his straw bed in the dark at the first news of a snow-fall, and hurrying forth with borrowed tools to face the biting wind for the chance of earning the meal for which he has been hungering for days;"