What is "strews"

Usage examples of "strews".

The king in his mind feared covered pitfalls, sharp stakes hidden in the ground, iron caltrops forged so that one of the four spikes was up no matter how the object fellall the material traps that a wily general strews in front of a hostile army.

A figure bows low, a hand is held out: on dragon-thick roots he strews his powder without muttering spells.

Curled in the puddles of gasoline and the strews of broken glass, George Biondi was beginning to stir and mutter deep in his throat.