Word Meanings - STRAW-CUTTER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An instrument to cut straw for fodder.

Related words: (words related to STRAW-CUTTER)

• INSTRUMENTAL
  Pertaining to, made by, or prepared for, an instrument, esp. a musical instrument; as, instrumental music, distinguished from vocal music. "He defended the use of instrumental music in public worship." Macaulay. Sweet voices mix'd with instrumental
• STRAW-CUTTER
  An instrument to cut straw for fodder.
• STRAWED
  imp. & p. p. of Straw.
• INSTRUMENTALITY
  The quality or condition of being instrumental; that which is instrumental; anything used as a means; medium; agency. The instrumentality of faith in justification. Bp. Burnet. The discovery of gunpowder developed the science of attack and defense
• INSTRUMENTATION
  1. The act of using or adapting as an instrument; a series or combination of instruments; means; agency. Otherwise we have no sufficient instrumentation for our human use or handling of so great a fact. H. Bushnell. The arrangement of a musical
• STRAWBOARD
  Pasteboard made of pulp of straw.
• STRAW-COLORED
  Being of a straw color. See Straw color, under Straw, n.
• INSTRUMENTALLY
  1. By means of an instrument or agency; as means to an end. South. They will argue that the end being essentially beneficial, the means become instrumentally so. Burke. 2. With instruments of music; as, a song instrumentally accompanied. Mason.
• INSTRUMENT
  A writing, as the means of giving formal expression to some act; a writing expressive of some act, contract, process, as a deed, contract, writ, etc. Burrill. 4. One who, or that which, is made a means, or is caused to serve a purpose; a medium,
• STRAWWORM
  A caddice worm.
• STRAWY
  Of or pertaining to straw; made of, or resembling, straw. Shak.
• STRAW
  To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow. Chaucer.
• STRAWBERRY
  A fragrant edible berry, of a delicious taste and commonly of a red color, the fruit of a plant of the genus Fragaria, of which there are many varieties. Also, the plant bearing the fruit. The common American strawberry is Fragaria virginiana; the
• INSTRUMENTALISM
  The view that the sanction of truth is its utility, or that truth is genuine only in so far as it is a valuable instrument. -- In`stru*men"tal*ist, n. Instrumentalism views truth as simply the value belonging to certain ideas in so far as these
• FODDERER
  One who fodders cattle.
• INSTRUMENTALIST
  One who plays upon an instrument of music, as distinguished from a vocalist.
• FODDER
  A weight by which lead and some other metals were formerly sold, in England, varying from 19
• INSTRUMENTALNESS
  Usefulness or agency, as means to an end; instrumentality. Hammond.
• INSTRUMENTIST
  A performer on a musical instrument; an instrumentalist.
• INSTRUMENTARY
  Instrumental.
• JACKSTRAW
  1. An effigy stuffed with straw; a scarecrow; hence, a man without property or influence. Milton. 2. One of a set of straws of strips of ivory, bone, wood, etc., for playing a child's game, the jackstraws being thrown confusedly together
• OVERSTRAW
  To overstrew. Shak.
• WINDLESTRAE; WINDLESTRAW
  A grass used for making ropes or for plaiting, esp. Agrostis Spica-ventis. Shelley.