Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

straw tick

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.58 in modern English

Syllables: straw tick
IPA

18

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

1

Syllables

8

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.

noun

The empty mattress bag of such a mattress.

Example Sentences

"A straw tick was as important to a bed as the feather. A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing."

Inflected Forms

straw ticks (plural)

Questions

What does straw tick mean?: A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.

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