单词 | jute |
释义 | juten.1 a. The fibre obtained from the bark of the plants Corchorus capsularis and C. olitorius (family Tiliaceæ), imported chiefly from Bengal, and used in the manufacture of gunny, canvas, bagging, cordage, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] linec975 hempc1300 flaxc1325 jute1746 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > jute jute1746 pat1801 1746 Log of Ship ‘Wake’ 22 Sept. in Indian Antiq. (1901) 8 (a.m.) Sent on shore 60 Bales of Gunney belonging to the Company wth all the Jute Rope..20 Ropes in all, 116 Bundles. 1801 Trans. Soc. Arts 19 240 Paut is known in India and has been sent to Europe, by the name of jute. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. I. 202 Samples of hemp, jute, and the fibrous substances prepared. 1879 Daily News 23 Aug. 6/2 The oil..is used..for giving a silk-like appearance to jute. 1879 Cassell's Techn. Educator vi. 337 Jute, or Gunny Fibre, is the produce of Corchoris capsularis. b. The plant which furnishes this fibre, or any plant of the genus Corchorus. bastard jute, a name of Hibiscus cannabinus, the fibre of which is used to adulterate jute. American jute: see velvet-leaf n. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > jute plant Jew's mallow1640 jute1861 1861 R. Swinhoe Narr. N. China Campaign 1860 373 Jute of large growth is sown in March and gathered in October. Compounds attributive, as jute-bagging, jute-cloth, jute-fibre, jute-rope, jute-wood, jute-yarn; jute-butts n. or jute-cuttings n. the stump of the jute plant, the fibre of which is employed for inferior purposes. ΚΠ 1746 [see sense a]. 1851 Official Descriptive & Illustr. Catal. Great Exhib. III. 513 4 pieces of jute stair carpeting. 1870 Daily News 14 Feb. The girls in these jute works are employed..in parties of four or five each. 1870 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce 201 When wet, jute fibre quickly rots. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 Sept. 1/1 The American cotton-growers require about 45 million yards of jute bagging every year in which to pack their cotton. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Juten.2 In plural. One of the three Low German tribes which, according to the account preserved by Bæda, invaded and settled in Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries; they are said to have occupied districts now included in Kent and Hampshire. Π c731 tr. Bæda Hist. Angl. i. xv Advenerant autem de tribus Germaniæ populis fortioribus, id est Saxonibus, Anglis, Jutis. De Jutarum origine sunt Cantuari et Victuari. c731 tr. Bæda Hist. Angl. iv. xvi Fuga lapsi sunt de insula [Vecte] et in proximam Jutorum provinciam translati.] c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) i. xv. 52 Comon hi of þrim folcum ðam strangestan Germanie, þæt [is] of Seaxum, of Angle, & of Geatum. Of Geata fruman syndon Cantware & Wihtsætan. (Cf. O. E. Chron. an. 449 Of Ald Seaxum, of Anglum, of Iotum. Of Iotum comon Cantwara, and Wihtwara..& þæt cyn on West Sexum þe man nu git hæt Iutna cynn.) c900 tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (1890) iv. xvi[ii]. 308 Þa flugon þa cneohtas ut of [Wiht] þæm ealonde, & wæron gelædde in þa neah~mægðe, seo is gecegd Eota lond. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 265 Of þe Iutes com þe Kentiche men, and þe men of the yle of Wight. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. iii. 111 The Saxons..and..two other Tribes,..Jutes and Angles. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 167/2 The first Germanic invaders of Britain after the departure of the Romans were Jutes. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People i. §1. 1 To the north of the English [in Sleswick] lay the tribe of the Jutes, whose name is still preserved in their district of Jutland. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11746n.2c900 |
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