drinking-straw

plural drinking-straws

1. datedDated form of drinking straw.

   Drinking-straws, Receptacle for dispensing.

   1911 October, Official Gazette of the United States Patent Office, volume CLXXI, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, page xxi, column 2

   5 more examples

   Apples, liquid, fresh and sweet, were present too, and their little brown jug with its drinking-straws was pleasantly patronized in its quaintly retired corner.

   1894 November 5, “Hallowe’en Party”, in College Life, volume VII, number 7, Emporia, Kan.: College of Emporia, page 53, column 2

   The bureau of manufactures, department of commerce and labor, has a communication from an American business house which states it has been purchasing drinking-straws abroad, but would like to make purchases in the home market.

   1911 January 9, The Muscatine Journal, number 7, Muscatine, Ia., page 3, column 5

   The above-described mechanism may be employed only for making bags; preferably, however, this mechanism is associated with the mechanism, comprising a drum 69, for charging each bag with cigarettes, matches, drinking-straws, or the like, and for closing the mouth of the bag.

   1923, Patents for Inventions. Abridgments of Specifications, volume 5, page 138

   drinking-straw 423 […] 7 the beaker with the drinking-straws

   1937, The English Duden: Picture Vocabularies in English with English and German Indices, pages 46 and 454

   Problems investigated for manufacturing industries included, among many others, the deterioration of wax used for the impregnation of drinking-straws, the identification of a special lubricant for a crankshaft-grinding machine, comparison of dry-cleaning solvents, an explosion in a degreasing plant, an explosion in a railway signal lamp, fire hazard in disinfection of aircraft cabins, and deterioration of hydraulic hoses in aircraft.

   1947, Annual Report of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, page 24