strawe

noun

1. (alt-of, countable, obsolete, uncountable)Obsolete spelling of straw.

   “a waze of strawe in his hande.”

   “Bene Lightmans to thy quarromes in what lipken hast thou lipped in this darkemans, whether in a lybbege or in the strummell. Good morrow to thy bodye, in what house hast thou lyne in all night, whether in a bed or in the strawe?”

   “Some others get a rotten wheele, all worne and cast aside, Which covered round about with strawe, and tow, they closely hide: And caryed to some mountaines top, being all with fire light, They hurle it down with violence, when darke appeares the night”