strāmentum, i, n. [sterno, I.], that which serves for spreading or littering.
I Straw , litter (syn. palea): fasces stramentorum ac virgultorum incenderunt, bundles of straw , Hirt. B. G. 8, 15: desectam cum stramento segetem, Liv. 2, 5, 3; Cato R. R. 5, 7.—Of a straw-bed : in stramentis pernoctare, Plaut. Truc. 2, 2, 23; Varr. R. R. 1, 50; Col. 6, 3, 1; Plin. 18, 7, 18, § 79; Phaedr. 2, 8, 23: si et stramentis incubet, Hor. S. 2, 3, 117 al.; cf.: antiquis enim torus e stramento erat, Plin. 8, 48, 73, § 193: stramentum ab stratu, quod id substernatur pecori, Varr. R. R. 1, 50, 3.—Of a thatched roof : casae, quae more Gallico stramentis erant tectae, Caes. B. G. 5, 43; Liv. 25, 39.—
II A covering , rug , coverlet , housing , etc. (very rare): mulorum, Caes. B. G. 7, 45: his verbis et vestimenta et stramenta contineri; sine his enim vivere neminem posse, bedclothes , Dig. 50, 16, 234: cameli, Vulg. Gen. 31, 34.