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straw tick

straw tick noun: a bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.

Noun

straw tick (plural straw ticks)

  1. A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.
  2. The empty mattress bag of such a mattress.
    • A straw tick was as important to a bed as the feather.
    • A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing.1949, Harper's Magazine, page 91

Forms of straw tick

pluralstraw ticks

Questions about straw tick

What does straw tick mean?
Straw tick means a bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.
What part of speech is straw tick?
Straw tick is a noun.
What is the plural of straw tick?
The plural of straw tick is straw ticks.

Words near straw tick in the dictionary

  1. straw shoe
  2. straw shoes
  3. straw stem
  4. straw stems
  5. straw that stirs the drink
  6. straw tick
  7. straw ticks
  8. straw vote
  9. straw votes
  10. straw wine
  11. straw wines

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