The inedible parts of a grain-producing plant.
Light jesting talk; banter; raillery.
Any excess or unwanted material, resource, or person; anything worthless.
Loose material, e.g. small strips of aluminum foil dropped from aircraft, intended to interfere with radar detection.
Straw or hay cut up fine for the food of cattle.
To use light, idle language by way of fun or ridicule; to banter.
To make fun of; to turn into ridicule by addressing in ironical or bantering language; to quiz.
To cut up (straw or hay) for use as cattle feed.
A tuft or clump of grass.
A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.