"straw tick" meaning in All languages combined

See straw tick on Wiktionary

Noun [English]

Forms: straw ticks [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} straw tick (plural straw ticks)
  1. A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.
    Sense id: en-straw_tick-en-noun-XXOxE4aK Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 81 19 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 76 24
  2. The empty mattress bag of such a mattress.
    Sense id: en-straw_tick-en-noun-UQVNeIMj

Inflected forms

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