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bang-straw

bang-straw is the alternative form of bang straw.

Meaning of bang straw

Noun

bang straw (plural bang straws)

  1. (archaic, idiomatic) A farmer's servant, especially a thresher.
    • Strange fastened it to his cane, for he fancied his little stick even on shipboard. With this he sprung onto the bulwark and roared out to Williams: 'I've not struck, sir! Tell your bloody bang-straws to try and hit my stick!'1938 December, James Norman Hall, “The Cheerful Tortoise (Doctor Dogbody's Leg)”, in The Windsor Magazine, volume 89, number 528, page 9

Forms of bang-straw

pluralbang-straws

Questions about bang-straw

What is bang-straw the alternative form of?
Bang-straw is the alternative form of bang straw.

Words near bang-straw in the dictionary

  1. bang zone
  2. bang zones
  3. Bang's disease
  4. bang-bang
  5. bang-on
  6. bang-straw
  7. bang-straws
  8. bang-tail
  9. bang-tails
  10. bang-up
  11. bang-up cove

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