strawn

See also: Strawn

English

Etymology

As strawen; compare papern, silvern.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: strôn, IPA^(key): /stɹɔːn/
• Rhymes: -ɔːn

Adjective

strawn (not comparable)

1. Alternative spelling of strawen
   • 1609: Charles Butler, The Feminine Monarchie; or, A Treatise Concerning Bees, page 34 (1634 revision)

     In some countries they use strawn Hives.

Scots

Etymology 1

A variant of strand (“small brook, gutter”).

Noun

strawn

1. (Western Scotland) gutter

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *strangiz.

Noun

strawn

1. string (“a number of objects strung on a thread”).
   • [1825, John Jamieson, “STRAWN”, in Supplement to the Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language: […], volume II (K–Z), Edinburgh: […] University Press; for W[illiam] & C[harles] Tait, […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, →OCLC, page 498, column 2:

     STRAWN, s. A strawn of beads, a string of beads, Mearns.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)]

Further reading

• “strawn”, in The Dictionary of the Scots Language, Edinburgh: Scottish Language Dictionaries, 2004–present, →OCLC, reproduced from W[illiam] Grant and D[avid] D. Murison, editors, The Scottish National Dictionary, Edinburgh: Scottish National Dictionary Association, 1931–1976, →OCLC.