Definitions for strew

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Spelling: [stroo]

IPA: /stru/

Strew is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in strew (erstw).

Definitions for strew

verb (used with object)

1. to let fall in separate pieces or particles over a surface; scatter or sprinkle:
2. to cover or overspread (a surface, place, etc.) with something scattered or sprinkled:
3. to be scattered or sprinkled over (a surface):
4. to spread widely; disseminate:

Origin of strew

before 1000; Middle English strewen, Old English strewian; cognate with German streuen, Old Norse strā, Gothic straujan; akin to Latin sternere to spread (see stratum<

Examples for strew

Lay them in a dish with a little water, strew some bits of butter over them, cover the dish with a thick crust, and bake it well.

Take the largest broad mushrooms, break them into an earthen pan, strew salt over, and stir them occasionally for three days.

Take two pecks of damask rose buds, pick off the green part, and strew in the bottom of a jar a handful of large bay salt.

Pare thin and halve four pounds of apricots, put them in a dish, and strew among them three pounds of fine loaf-sugar powdered.

Clean and wash some currants, and make them plump before the fire: then strew them over the syllabub, and it will be fit for use.

Dish up the beef with the upper side downwards, put the mince in the inside, and strew it with bread crumbs ready prepared.

Powder the sugar, and strew it in layers between the slices of pine-apple.

It would be impious to strew our mother's bones along the way.

Rub it over with a piece of butter, strew it with a little chopped sage and a few bread crumbs, and roast it in a Dutch oven.

Dip each fish into the egg, and then strew them with bread crumbs.