strawing

Verb

straw (third-person singular simple present straws, present participle strawing, simple past and past participle strawed)

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To scatter or to spread loosely.
2. (transitive) To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
3. (obsolete, slang) To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
   • It was the custom for the disaffected of those days to make known their grievances by distributing papers on doors of public buildings, and even strawing them in the high way, for the benefit of the chance passenger.1846, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Letters of the kings of England, page 116

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