STRAW
- to cover with stalks of threshed grain [v STRAWN or STRAWED, STRAWED or STRAWN, STRAWING, STRAWS]
- stalk of cereal grass
- mass of dried stalks
- tube for sucking up a liquid
- to seize at any chance, no matter how slight, of saving oneself from calamity
- to cover with straw (stalks of threshed grain) [v STRAWED, STRAWING, STRAWS]
- to decide by lottery using straws or strawlike items of different lengths, usually with the short straw or straws determining the person chosen or the loser