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straw ticks

straw ticks is the plural of straw tick.

Meaning of straw tick

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

Questions about straw ticks

What is straw ticks the plural of?
Straw ticks is the plural of straw tick.

Words near straw ticks in the dictionary

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

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