shilf

English

Etymology

Compare German Shilf (“sedge”).

Noun

(obsolete) straw
- 1849, The Ecclesiologist: Volume 9, page 288:
  Two loads of clay, and one load of coarse shilf mixed and wetted, and trodden together to lump […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “shilf”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)