Straw:
1. Stalks of threshed grain, used as bedding and food for animals, for thatching, and for weaving or braiding, as into baskets.
2. Something, such as a hat or basket, made of straw.
3. A slender tube used for sucking up a liquid.
4. Something of minimal value or importance.
Which is the BEST meaning for straw as it is used in the following sentence?
There were a couple of trunks indeed, such as a rational man might need, but in addition there were a box of books—big, fat books, of which some were just in an incomprehensible handwriting—and a dozen or more crates, boxes, and cases, containing objects packed in straw, as it seemed to Hall, tugging with a casual curiosity at the straw—glass bottles.
A) Definition 1
B) Definition 2
C) Definition 3
D) Definition 4