rare. [f. STREW v.] A number of things strewed over a surface or scattered about.
1578. Banister, Hist. Man, I. 28 b. Brachiale … is to be vnderstanded the whole strewe, and packe of bones [L. totam eam ossium struem intelligi], intersited betwene the cubit, and Postbrachiale.
1657. Bp. H. King, Exequy, Poems (1843), 34. And for sweet flowres to crown thy hearse, Receive a strew of weeping verse.
1891. W. Whitman, Autobiog. (1892), 204. There being quite a strew of printer’s proofs and slips, and the daily papers.
1907. ‘Barbara Burke,’ Barbara Goes to Oxford, 255. I have been sitting in a lovely strew of books and pamphlets and pictures.
