straw tick
English
Noun
straw tick (plural straw ticks)
- A bed mattress made from a coarse cotton material, or shoddy, and filled with (usually) straw.
- Also used to refer to the empty mattress bag.
- 1949. Harper's Magazine. p.91
- A straw tick was as important to a bed as the feather.
- A feather bed was good forever, but the life of a straw tick was from thrashing to thrashing.
- 1949. Harper's Magazine. p.91