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Definition of sapsaman in Turkish English dictionary
- straw
- A drinking straw
- Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw
- a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw
straw colour:.
- spread by scattering ("straw" is archaic); "strew toys all over the carpet"
- Such dried stalks considered collectively
- If an event is the last straw or the straw that broke the camel's back, it is the latest in a series of unpleasant or undesirable events, and makes you feel that you cannot tolerate a situation any longer. For him the Church's decision to allow the ordination of women had been the last straw
- a yellow tint; yellow diluted with white
- Used in brick-making (Ex 5: 7-18) Used figuratively in Job 41: 27; Isa 11: 7; 25: 10; 65: 25
- [n] The stalks or stems of herbaceous straight-stemmed plants, which today comes from plants like wheat, rye, oats, or barley
- The stems of the wheat or oat plants which are cut and baled and often used for animal bedding Sometimes, straw is fed to animals
- All vegetative material of agricultural origin other than seed removed by swathing, combining or cutting
- The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc
- material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
- A dried stalk of a cereal plant
- Hollow stalactite the same width as a drip of water Formed as with a stalactite with the water flowing down the central tube
- The plant matter left over after the seeds are removed
- as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw
- If you are clutching at straws or grasping at straws, you are trying unusual or extreme ideas or methods because other ideas or methods have failed. a badly thought-out scheme from a Government clutching at straws