Straw Hut

Straw

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 by weight of cereal crops such as barley, oats, rice, rye and wheat. It has a number of different uses, including fuel, livestock bedding and fodder, thatching and basket making.

Hut

A hut is a small dwelling, which may be constructed of various local materials. Huts are a type of vernacular (non-academic) architecture, being built of readily available materials like mud.

Straw (colour)

Straw is a colour, a tone of pale yellow, the colour of straw. The Latin word stramineus, with the same meaning, is often used in describing nature.

straw

Noun

1. A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
2. 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.

Adjective

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

hut

Noun

1. A small, simple one-storey dwelling or shelter, often with just one room, and generally built of readily available local materials.
2. A small wooden shed.

Verb

1. To provide (someone) with shelter in a hut.
2. To take shelter in a hut.