Meanings
- Southern USPregnant.
She'd been called to straw,²⁵ she admitted. Preacher Willard Coleman knew all about her sinnin', but he'd promised he'd forgive her.[…] ²⁵Pregnant.
2007 January 26, Elaine Hatfield, Take up Serpents: The Further Adventures of Firefly, the Tiny Detective, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 981 more example
After that, till she was called to straw, she just minded her own business and said nothing about it. When the time come Cora didn't let on to a soul. […] Save for one little gown, Cora hadn't made any baby clothes. I didn't even know she was called to straw.
1968, Mildred Haun, The Hawk's Done Gone: And Other Stories, Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 244
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