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  • straw leaf
    [from its use in making STRAW¹] n. a palm frond. (Black)
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  • strawberry rockfish
    n. a fish, Mycteroperca interstitialis. YELLOW-MOUTH GROUPER (White)
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  • straw bag
    [etym?) n. a burlap bag. = CROCUS BAG (Inagua, Mayag., White)
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  • straw², straw-bed
    [cf. Scots straw a confinement, bed a woman's confinement CSD] n. 1. a mattress of swamp grass on which a woman bears
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  • straw¹
    n. 1. [OED, the stems of certain cereals used for weaving; cf. Réunion Cr. Fr. pay (lit. straw) idem (Chaudenson 1974:182)] prepared
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  • stratting
    [cf. strapping] adj. (of men) tall and muscular. (Black)
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  • strap boat
    [evidently from (air) strip + boat] n. a ferry boat providing service between the cays and an airport on the main
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  • strangle
    [OED, to suffocate or choke, now rare] v.i., v.t. to choke (with dust, water, etc.): 1918 [He] make a regular to-do
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  • strainer vine
    [Car.; "The vine Luffa cylindrica and its fruit, whose netted, fibrous interior, when dry, was formerly used to strain liquids" DJE] n.,
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  • straight up
    [US dial. South idem ADD; from position of the clock's big hand] phr. exactly (the hour): It's straight up three (Nassau).
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