straw bed
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.96 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of strawbed.
noun
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straw, bed.
Example Sentences
- "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;"
- "The best way to do this is to lay a flock bed on top of a 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."
- "But if your ground is sticky clay, the furrowing or straw bed methods will work better than this one."