straw bed

English

Noun

straw bed (plural straw beds)

1. Alternative form of strawbed
   • 1857, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading:

     You see the boy leaping from his straw bed in the dark at the first news of a snow-fall, and hurrying forth with borrowed tools to face the biting wind for the chance of earning the meal for which he has been hungering for days;

   • 2015, Ruth Goodman, How to be a Tudor: A Dawn-to-Dusk Guide to Everyday Life:

     The best way to do this is to lay a flock bed on top of a straw bed.

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straw,‎ bed.
   • 2010, Tim Tyne, The Sheep Book For Smallholders, page 88:

     They really are better off indoors, I think, and the collective sigh of pleasure from the newly housed ewes as they gratefully subside into a deep, dry, straw bed, tells me that they agree.

   • 2012, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living:

     But if your ground is sticky clay, the furrowing or straw bed methods will work better than this one.

Anagrams

• bedstraw