Verb (used with object), : to strew seed in a garden bed. ,to strew a floor with sawdust. ,Sawdust strewed the floor. ,to strew rumors among the troops. From Dictionary.com.
Lemon balm was once used for strewing on dirt floors. From Wordnik.com. [Brigitte Mars: Lemon Balm: A Friend for the Bees] Reference
The pickers pass on, strewing the earth with ripe pods. From Wordnik.com. [Cocoa and Chocolate Their History from Plantation to Consumer] Reference
The King's Herb-woman with her six Maids, strewing the way with herbs. From Wordnik.com. [Coronation Anecdotes] Reference
Hiding the sun, and strewing the ground with thatch from the house-roofs. From Wordnik.com. [Elson Grammar School Literature v4] Reference
The seed is sown in beds, usually by strewing very thickly the corn in the ear. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Then pack skin side down, ham upon ham, side upon side, strewing on salt abundantly. From Wordnik.com. [Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889] Reference
It was formerly employed for strewing churches, littering chambers, and stuffing beds. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
At last, with a deafening roar that was heard for many a mile, she blew up, strewing the. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Sea Fights From Salamis to Tsu-Shima] Reference
The shackles strewing the press-room bore eloquent testimony to the manner of their flight. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
Aladdin mounted his horse and passed through the streets, the slaves strewing gold as they went. From Wordnik.com. [Aladdin and the Magic Lamp] Reference
He leans forward slightly, and is looking to the ladies, who are strewing his path with flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Home Pastimes; or Tableaux Vivants] Reference
Close your eyes and you can practically see Armstrong strewing corn in the canyons of Wall Street. From Wordnik.com. [Why At&T Is Feeding Ducks] Reference
Then again they are driven back, and again they charge up the hill, strewing the ground with corpses. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865] Reference
Everywhere addresses and banquets! festoons, pealing bells, children and young ladies strewing flowers!. From Wordnik.com. [Napoleon and the Queen of Prussia] Reference
Our gunners were shelling Germans from pillar to post, as it were, and strewing the ground with their dead. From Wordnik.com. [The New York Times Current History of the European War, Vol 1, Issue 4, January 23, 1915] Reference
Directly after these, slim bare-limbed youths came in a rapid pace strewing the path with flowers and palm-leaves. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
The assailants advanced in single file, the last carefully strewing leaves on the footprints of those who had preceded. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of the Venerable Mother Mary of the Incarnation] Reference
The flowers were used formerly on May-day by country people for strewing before their doors, and weaving into garlands. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Then, O great king, bearing unearthly variegated blossoms Vayu (the Wind-god) fell to strewing them around the Pandava. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 1 Books 1, 2 and 3] Reference
It was a terrible dispute, a real "playing humanity," with threats, clenched fists, broken crockery strewing the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Bill-Toppers] Reference
Now the shattered half itself separated into two halves, and these in turn crumbled, strewing debris in a widening spiral. From Wordnik.com. [Greylorn] Reference
It had an aromatic scent, even when in a dried state, and its fragrant leaves were used for strewing the floors of churches. From Wordnik.com. [From John O'Groats to Land's End] Reference
Marks of the storm were visible in one or two landslides and in a great amount of debris strewing the uncovered beach and rocks. From Wordnik.com. [The Spanish Chest] Reference
When he did so, a fearful blast rushed in, carrying great masses of snow and ice, strewing it over the entire plain of the earth. From Wordnik.com. [A Treasury of Eskimo Tales] Reference
With their squaws and children, they presently drew near, and, strewing the earth with laurel-boughs, sat down among the Frenchmen. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863] Reference
The crossing of the horses over this place was more difficult than I expected, and had to be accomplished by strewing the ground with grass. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of Landsborough's Expedition from Carpentaria In search of Burke and Wills] Reference
Noxious odors are kept down by the prompt removal of droppings and by strewing sand, plaster, rock phosphate, or dry earth in the manure gutters. From Wordnik.com. [Pratt's Practical Pointers on the Care of Livestock and Poultry] Reference
Southerners chasing the fugitives had the pickings of the iced wines, game pies, and cold chicken which "Brick" Pomeroy saw strewing the road back. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
A passing traveller will see little to compensate the sadness occasioned by old magnificence thus in ruins, strewing the whole island with its melancholy wrecks. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No. 4, October, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
This said, he took a cream-tart out of the oven, and, after strewing on it some pomegranate kernels and sugar, set it before Agib, who pronounced it very delicious. From Wordnik.com. [The Arabian Nights Entertainments - Volume 01] Reference
Put the nuts into jars (having first stuck each of them through in several places with a large needle), strewing the powdered seasoning between every layer of nuts. From Wordnik.com. [The Whitehouse Cookbook (1887) The Whole Comprising a Comprehensive Cyclopedia of Information for the Home] Reference
Rushes of this sort were employed by our remote ancestors for strewing, when fresh and green, about the floor of the hall after discontinuing its big fire at Eastertide. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Just as the trader's assailants were on the point of boarding her the Spaniard blew up, strewing the sea with his wreckage, but leaving the merchantman providentially unharmed. From Wordnik.com. [The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore] Reference
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