straw tick

noun

A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.

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Meanings

nounstraw tick (plural straw ticks)

plural straw ticks

  1. A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.
  2. The empty mattress bag of such a mattress.

    A straw tick was as important to a bed as the feather. A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing.

    1949, Harper's Magazine, page 91
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