straw bed

plural straw beds

1. alternativeAlternative form of strawbed.

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

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

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   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;

   1857, The Leisure Hour: An Illustrated Magazine for Home Reading

2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see straw, bed.

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

   2012, Carla Emery, The Encyclopedia of Country Living

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   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.

   2010, Tim Tyne, The Sheep Book For Smallholders, page 88