| 单词 | pita-thread |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspita-thread C1. General attributive, as pita-fibre, pita-flax, pita-thread, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > other plant fibre palmite1555 coir1582 pita1648 kitul1681 silk-cotton1697 pita-thread1748 abaca1751 khus khus1798 gomuti1811 coco fibre1813 Manila hemp1814 pineapple fibre1834 moog1840 piassava1841 Para grass1850 raffia1850 African hair1851 ambari1851 diss1855 munj1855 monkey grass1858 crin vegetal1859 mung1866 lauhala1880 bass?1881 raphia bast1882 istle1883 raphia grass1885 settler's twine1898 tucum1901 Manila fibre1921 bassine1923 sotol1942 1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. v. 177 Pito thread. 1854 Times 18 Apr. 9/2 In the white-fibred plants, such as the bowstring hemp, the aloe, the pita-fibre, the pineapple, and, above all, the plantain, we had boundless resources not only for paper making, but for cordage. 1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 898/1 Pita-fibre and Pita-thread are..the fibre, called also Aloe-fibre, obtained from the leaves of the larger Agaves. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 85/2 Pita flax [is procured] from Agave americana. 1952 E. Mittelhölzer Children of Kaywana 12 My people give them axes and knives and trinkets, and they give us cotton and hammocks and pita hemp. 1963 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 43 507 Efforts to encourage the use of pita-hemp seem to have been rewarded when Santiago Ruiz succeeded in making ‘several yards’ of ‘perfect cloth.’ 1998 Post & Courier (Charleston, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 9 July 1 Agave also can be used to manufacture pita flax and sisal and can be cut up for cattle feed. < as lemmas |
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