Haulm vs. Straw: What's the Difference?

Haulm and Straw Definitions
Haulm
The stems of peas, beans, potatoes, or grasses.
Straw
Stalks of threshed grain, used as bedding and food for animals, for thatching, and for weaving or braiding, as into baskets.
Haulm
(uncountable) The stems of various cultivated plants, left after harvesting the crop, which are used as animal food or litter, or for thatching.
Straw
A single stalk of threshed grain.
Haulm
(countable) An individual plant stem.
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Straw
Pieces or a piece of natural or artificial strawlike material.
Haulm
(countable) Part of a harness; a hame.
Straw
Something, such as a hat or basket, made of straw.
Haulm
The denuded stems or stalks of such crops as buckwheat and the cereal grains, beans, etc.; straw.
Straw
A slender tube used for sucking up a liquid.
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Haulm
A part of a harness; a hame.
Straw
Something of minimal value or importance.
Haulm
Stems of beans and peas and potatoes and grasses collectively as used for thatching and bedding
Straw
The least valuable bit; a jot
I don't care a straw what you think.
Straw
Something with too little substance to provide support in a crisis
Near the end we were grasping at straws.
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Straw
Of, relating to, or made of straw
A straw mat.
Straw
Containing or used for straw, as a barn or feeding trough.
Straw
Of the color of straw; yellowish.
Straw
Of, relating to, or constituting a straw man.
Straw
Apparently legitimate but actually intended as a cover for illegal or secret activity
Set up a straw company to launder money.
Straw
(countable) A dried stalk of a cereal plant.
Straw
(uncountable) Such dried stalks considered collectively; this bulk matter may be a chief salable product, a by-product, fodder, bedding, or green manure, depending on region and on current market conditions.
Straw
(countable) A drinking straw.
Straw
(uncommon) A pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Straw
(figurative) Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing.
Straw
Made of straw.
Straw hat
Straw
Of a pale, yellowish beige colour, like that of a dried straw.
Straw
(figurative) Imaginary, but presented as real.
A straw enemy built up in the media to seem like a real threat, which then collapses like a balloon.
Straw
To lay straw around plants to protect them from frost.
Straw
To sell straws on the streets in order to cover the giving to the purchaser of things usually banned, such as pornography.
Straw
To spread or scatter. See Strew, and Strow.
Straw
A stalk or stem of certain species of grain, pulse, etc., especially of wheat, rye, oats, barley, more rarely of buckwheat, beans, and pease.
Straw
The gathered and thrashed stalks of certain species of grain, etc.; as, a bundle, or a load, of rye straw.
Straw
Anything proverbially worthless; the least possible thing; a mere trifle.
I set not a straw by thy dreamings.
Straw
Plant fiber used e.g. for making baskets and hats or as fodder
Straw
Material consisting of seed coverings and small pieces of stem or leaves that have been separated from the seeds
Straw
A yellow tint; yellow diluted with white
Straw
A thin paper or plastic tube used to such liquids into the mouth
Straw
Cover or provide with or as if with straw;
Cows were strawed to weather the snowstorm
Straw
Spread by scattering (
Straw
Strew toys all over the carpet
Straw
Of a pale yellow color like straw; straw colored