Straw vs Haulm - What's the difference?
straw | haulm | Synonyms |
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively.
(countable) A drinking straw.
a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
*XIX c. , recorded by Francis James Child,
*:‘For thy sword and thy bow I care not a straw ,
*:Nor all thine arrows to boot;
*:If I get a knop upon thy bare scop,
*:Thou canst as well shite as shoote.’
*1857 , Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers :
*:He also decided, which was more to his purpose, that Eleanor did not care a straw for him, and that very probably she did care a straw for his rival.
*1881 , :
*:To be deeply interested in the accidents of our existence, to enjoy keenly the mixed texture of human experience, rather leads a man to disregard precautions, and risk his neck against a straw .
Made of straw.
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
(collectively ) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching
An individual plant stem.
Part of a harness; a hame.
Straw is a synonym of haulm.
As nouns the difference between straw and haulm
is that straw is (countable) a dried stalk of a cereal plant while haulm is (collectively ) the stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop to be used as animal litter or for thatching.As an adjective straw
is made of straw.straw
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Derived terms
* * strawberryAdjective
(-)- straw hat
