Sheaf vs. Straw — What's the Difference?

A bundle of cut stalks of grain or similar plants bound with straw or twine.

Straw is an agricultural byproduct consisting of the dry stalks of cereal plants after the grain and chaff have been removed. It makes up about half of the yield of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat.

A collection of items held or bound together

Dried stalks of grain, used especially as fodder or as material for thatching, packing, or weaving

An archer's quiver.

A thin hollow tube of paper or plastic for sucking drink from a glass or bottle.

To gather and bind into a bundle.

Stalks of threshed grain, used as bedding and food for animals, for thatching, and for weaving or braiding, as into baskets.

A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

A single stalk of threshed grain.

Any collection of things bound together.

Pieces or a piece of natural or artificial strawlike material.

A bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer.

Something, such as a hat or basket, made of straw.

A quantity of arrows, usually twenty-four.

A slender tube used for sucking up a liquid.

(mechanical) A sheave.

Something of minimal value or importance.

(mathematics) An abstract construct in topology that associates data to the open sets of a topological space, together with well-defined restrictions from larger to smaller open sets, subject to the condition that compatible data on overlapping open sets corresponds, via the restrictions, to a unique datum on the union of the open sets.

The least valuable bit; a jot

(transitive) To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves

Something with too little substance to provide support in a crisis

(intransitive) To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

Of, relating to, or made of straw

A sheave.

Containing or used for straw, as a barn or feeding trough.

A quantity of the stalks and ears of wheat, rye, or other grain, bound together; a bundle of grain or straw.

Of the color of straw; yellowish.

Any collection of things bound together; a bundle; specifically, a bundle of arrows sufficient to fill a quiver, or the allowance of each archer, - usually twenty-four.

Of, relating to, or constituting a straw man.

To gather and bind into a sheaf; to make into sheaves; as, to sheaf wheat.

Apparently legitimate but actually intended as a cover for illegal or secret activity

To collect and bind cut grain, or the like; to make sheaves.

(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.

A package of several things tied together for carrying or storing

(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.

(countable) A drinking straw.

(uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.

Made of straw.

Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.

(figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.

To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.

To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.

To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.

A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.

The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.

Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.

Plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder

Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds

A yellow tint; yellow diluted with white

A thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the mouth

Cover or provide with or as if with straw;

Spread by scattering (

Of a pale yellow color like straw; straw colored