Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A house for holding straw after the grain has been thrashed out.
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Examples
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Someday the kids will read the original tale and wonder why the stupid straw-house pig doesn't just hop onto the next bookshelf.
Archive 2007-05-01 Roger Sutton 2007
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Someday the kids will read the original tale and wonder why the stupid straw-house pig doesn't just hop onto the next bookshelf.
Nudge nudge wink wink Roger Sutton 2007
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He looked like one of the three little pigs watching for the wolf; the straw-house pig.
Drowned Hopes Westlake, Donald E. 1990
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He lured the principal ones by fraud, into a straw-house, and setting fire to it, he burnt them alive.
Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt
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Harry would have crept into the straw-house; but Hugh said, pulling
David Elginbrod George MacDonald 1864
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If we do not, right now, proceed to tear down the straw-house of Force, we never will!
Propeller Most Popular Stories Striker101 2010
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