Crossword-Solution: STRAW 5 letters, 417 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Dictionary

Word	Word Type	Definition
Straw	v. t.	To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
Straw	n.	A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
Straw	n.	The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
Straw	n.	Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.

Anagrams

Word		Anagrams
STRAW	anagram	SWART, WARTS

We have 417 clues for the answer “STRAW”

Clue	Answers
"Ban plastic" movement target	1 answer
"I do not care one ___."—Terence.	1 answer
"That's the last ______!"	1 answer
"The Three Little Pigs" construction material	1 answer
"The Three Little Pigs" house material	1 answer
"The Wizard of Oz" costume	1 answer
"This is the last ___!"	1 answer
"Turkey in the ___"	1 answer
'-- Dogs' ('71 film)	1 answer
A kind of poll.	1 answer
A real suck-up?	1 answer
A sucker for milkshakes, say	1 answer
A sucker might use this	1 answer
Addition to a soda, but not to a beer	1 answer
Animal bedding	1 answer
Animal bedding, sometimes	1 answer
Back-breaker for a camel?	1 answer
Backbreaker of fable	1 answer
Backbreaker, in a proverb	1 answer
Backbreaker, in proverb	1 answer
Backbreaker, perhaps	1 answer
Bactrian backbreaker?	1 answer
Banned plastic item, in many places	1 answer
Barn floor covering	1 answer
Bedding for cattle	1 answer
Bedding in a barn	1 answer
Bedding in a horse's stall	1 answer
Boater makeup	1 answer
Boater material	1 answer
Boba shop item in a plastic wrapper	1 answer
Boba tea insert	1 answer
Bolger's guts in 1939	1 answer
Boss or vote	1 answer
Boss, man or vote.	1 answer
Bovine bedding	1 answer
Bubble tea insert	1 answer
Bubble tea tube	1 answer
Building material for a little pig	1 answer
Building material for a pig	1 answer
Building material for one of the Three Little Pigs	1 answer
Building material for the first little pig	1 answer
Building material in "The Three Little Pigs"	1 answer
Building material that was no problem for the Big Bad Wolf	1 answer
Byproduct of threshing.	1 answer
Camel back's undoer	1 answer
Camel's bane	1 answer
Camel's burden	1 answer
Camel's undoing	1 answer
Certain hat material	1 answer
Common anti-gravity device?	1 answer

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Hint 1 meaning

One who, or that which, eats.

Hint 2 anagram

TEEAR

Hint 3 another clue

greedy person

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Sentences with STRAW (5)

Those lazy fellows have not even swept the cobwebs away.” While he thus examined everything in turn, he spied the tips of the antlers of the Stag peeping out of the straw.

Aesop’s Fables Aesop 2000

When the wheat crop failed, he threshed the straw at a dead loss to demonstrate how little grain there was, and thus prove his case against Providence.

O Pioneers! Willa Cather 1991

Detached hurdles thatched with straw were stuck into the ground at various scattered points, amid and under which the whitish forms of his meek ewes moved and rustled.

Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy 1992

Aesop’s Fables The Cock and the Pearl A cock was once strutting up and down the farmyard among the hens when suddenly he espied something shinning amid the straw.

The Fables of Aesop Aesop 1992

There was a little two-wheeled cart inscribed with the name of Thomas Lobb, Greengrocer, New Malden, with a smashed wheel and an abandoned tin trunk; there was a straw hat trampled into the now hardened mud, and at the top of West Hill a lot of blood-stained glass about the overturned water trough.

The War of the Worlds H. G. Wells 1992

Quotes with STRAW (3)

We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless As wind in dry grass Or rats' feet over broken glass In our dry cellar Shape without form, shade without colour, Paralysed force, gesture without motion;

T. S. Eliot Poems: 1909-1925

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Hesiod

The world was in truth made of jackstraws. The world was very combustible, the human body was partible in ways heretofore unimagined. What held the civilized world together was the thinnest tissue of nothing but human will. Civilization was not in the natural order but was some wort of willed invention held taut like a fabric or a sail against the chaos of the winds. And why we had invented it, or how we knew to invent it, was beyond him. Newmann had seen some truth that was …

Paulette Jiles Enemy Women

Where this answer appears

Appears in: Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 494 times in crossword archives (1942–2025).