Crossword-Solution: TIBN 4 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 6

They were loaded with huge canvas sacks of tibn, or cut straw, which hung down on both sides, making it impossible to pass them without stooping very low.

One of the principal foods for cattle upon the farm is _Tibn_, as it is called by the Egyptians--chopped or bruised straw, made more nutritious, according to the needs of the animal in feeding, by the addition of beans or barley; and in the progress across the place a huge stack of this chaff-like provender was passed, some ten feet high, but totally unprotected from the weather by thatch.

They are fed on barley and broken straw (_tibn_), the former a bad form of provender for the horse, unless its harshness be ameliorated by crushing.

But in Egypt, where the rain does so little towards injuring the straw or stalk, such musty fare seldom falls to the lot of the native cattle, while this chopped or bruised straw, the _tibn_ already mentioned, is constantly prepared at the time of threshing by the action of the ingeniously constructed Norag.

The cut straw, _Tibn_, is carried by the wind to a distance, while the grain falls near to the operator.