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• Straw

  ·vt To spread or scatter. ·see <<Strew>>, and <<Strow>>. II. Straw ·noun Anything proverbially wort...

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• Straw

  Used in brick-making (Ex. 5:7-18). Used figuratively in Job 41:27; Isa. 11:7; 25:10; 65:25. ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• straw

  A good woman in the straw; a lying-in woman. His eyes draw straw; his eyes are almost shut, or he is...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• straw!

  A word of command, now obsolete, formerly given to dismiss soldiers who were to remain in readiness ...

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• Straw

  Both wheat and barley straw were used by the ancient Hebrews chiefly as fodder for the horses cattle...

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• Bang

  ·noun A blow as with a club; a heavy blow. II. Bang ·noun The sound produced by a sudden concussion...

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• to bang

  To beat. ...

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• bang

  To beat, i. e. excel, to surpass. "This bangs all things."--Ohio. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• bang

  A mixture of opium, hemp-leaves, and tobacco, of an intoxicating quality, chewed and smoked by the M...

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• Straw-colored

  ·adj Being of a straw color. ·see Straw color, under Straw, ·noun. ...

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• Straw-cutter

  ·noun An instrument to cut straw for fodder. ...

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• Slam-bang

  ·adv With great violence; with a slamming or banging noise. ...

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• bang up

  (WHIP.) Quite the thing, hellish fine. Well done. Compleat. Dashing. In a handsome stile. A bang up...

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• suffolk bang

  A very poor and hard kind of cheese, which was indignantly refused in our North Sea fleet. It was, a...

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• men of straw

  Hired bail, so called from having straw stuck in their shoes to distinguish them. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• slap-bang shop

  A petty cook's shop, where there is no credit given, but what is had must be paid DOWN WITH THE READ...

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• bang-tail muster

  See quotation. 1887. W. S. S. Tyrwhitt, `The New Churn in the Queensland Bush,'p. 61: «Every third...

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