strawe

See also: strawę and Strawę

English

Noun

strawe (countable and uncountable, plural strawes)

1. Obsolete spelling of straw.
   • 1565, Thomas Harding, A Confutation of a Booke Intituled An Apologie of the Churche of England:

     a waze of strawe in his hande.

   • 1566, Thomas Harman, A Caveat or Warning for Common Cursitors‎^[1], T. Bensley, published 1814, page 66:

     Bene Lightmans to thy quarromes in what lipken hast thou lipped in this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell.
     Good morrow to thy bodye, in what house hast thou lyne in all night, whether in a bed or in the strawe?

   • 1570, Thomas Naogeorgus, translated by Barnabe Googe, The Popish Kingdome:

     Some others get a rotten wheele, all worne and cast aside,
     Which covered round about with strawe, and tow, they closely hide:
     And caryed to some mountaines top, being all with fire light,
     They hurle it down with violence, when darke appeares the night

Middle English

Noun

strawe

1. Alternative form of straw