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straw tick en · NOUN

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1. A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.
2. The empty mattress bag of such a mattress.
   • A straw tick was as important to a bed as the feather. A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing. 1949, Harper's Magazine, page 91:

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