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called to straw en · ADJ
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(Southern-US) Pregnant.
After that, till she was called to straw, she just minded her own business and said nothing about it. When the time come Cora didn't let on to a soul. […] Save for one little gown, Cora hadn't made any baby clothes. I didn't even know she was called to straw.
1968, Mildred Haun, The Hawk's Done Gone: And Other Stories, Vanderbilt University Press, →ISBN, page 244:She'd been called to straw,²⁵ she admitted. Preacher Willard Coleman knew all about her sinnin', but he'd promised he'd forgive her.[…] ²⁵Pregnant.
2007 January 26, Elaine Hatfield, Take up Serpents: The Further Adventures of Firefly, the Tiny Detective, Xlibris Corporation, →ISBN, page 98: