straw: Straw, by the eastern mode of threshing, was cut or shattered, and reduced to a kind of chaff. With this, sometimes mixed with a little barley, the eastern people still feed their labouring beasts, as they anciently did.
wash: Gen 18:4, Gen 19:2, Gen 43:24; Jdg 19:21; 1Sa 25:41; Luk 7:44; Joh 13:4-14; 1Ti 5:10