straw mattress

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• Straw — is an agricultural by product, the dry of a cereal plant, after the grain or seed has been removed. Straw makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. In times gone by, it was regarded as a useful by …   Wikipedia

• Mattress — For other uses, see Mattress (disambiguation). A pillow top queen size mattress. A mattress is a manufactured product to sleep or lie on, consisting of resilient materials and covered with an outer fabric or ticking. In the developed world it is… …   Wikipedia

• straw tick — noun a) A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw. A straw tick was as important to a bed as the feather. b) Also used to refer to the empty mattress bag. A feather bed was good forever, but the …   Wiktionary

• mattress — /ma tris/, n. 1. a large pad for supporting the reclining body, used as or on a bed, consisting of a quilted or similarly fastened case, usually of heavy cloth, that contains hair, straw, cotton, foam rubber, etc., or a framework of metal springs …   Universalium

• mattress — mat•tress [[t]ˈmæ trɪs[/t]] n. 1) cv a large pad used as or on a bed and consisting of a cloth case filled with straw, cotton, foam rubber, or similar supporting material 2) air mattress 3) cv a mat woven of brush, poles, or similar material,… …   From formal English to slang

• straw bed — noun : a mattress filled with straw …   Useful english dictionary

• mattress — /ˈmætrəs / (say matruhs) noun 1. a case filled with soft material, as straw, cotton, etc., often reinforced with springs, and usually quilted or fastened together at intervals, used as or on a bed. 2. a mat woven of brush, poles, or similar… …  

• palliasse — noun A thin mattress or under bed stuffed with straw. Out I sallied and spent sixteen shillings of it upon a new palliasse which should go under the straw mattress upon my bed …   Wiktionary

• donkey’s breakfast — n. something made of straw: a straw hat, a straw mattress, etc. □ I don’t really want to sleep on a donkey’s breakfast, but it’s better than the floor. □ The tourist was wearing a red dress and had a donkey’s breakfast on her head …   Dictionary of American slang and colloquial expressions

• Mary Surratt — Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt Mary Surratt in 1850. Born May 1820 or 1823 Waterloo, Maryland, U.S. Died July 7, 1865(1865 07 07) (aged 42 or 45) Washington, D.C., U.S …   Wikipedia

• palliasse — noun Etymology: modification of French paillasse, from paille straw Date: 1763 a thin straw mattress used as a pallet …   New Collegiate Dictionary