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jute1 /dʒuːt /noun [mass noun]1Rough fibre made from the stems of a tropical Old World plant, used for making twine and rope or woven into sacking or matting.There were different weaves in jute and blends of jute with cotton and silk....- I go back and find some odd things like rope and natural jute twine packaged for the crafts market.
- Then, like magpies, they hurry back to their workshop loaded with wisps of lace and coils of steel mesh, strands of silk and ropes of jute.
2The herbaceous plant which is cultivated for jute fibre, with edible young shoots.- Genus Corchorus, family Tiliaceae: several species.
This is more so in the case of small & medium Farmers who are involved in conventional cultivation of common products like rice, wheat, coconut, jute or sugar cane....- Natural products from jute and banana fibre are being promoted with much hype, especially in urban setups where there is a demand for anything biodegradable.
- Some paper, however, is made from such plants as cotton, rice, wheat, cornstalks, hemp, and jute; very high quality ‘rag’ paper is still derived from cotton rags.
2.1Used in names of other plants that yield fibre, e.g. Chinese jute.For the Sahara Cup, it was the Chinese jute cap, T-shirt, chinos, towel set and socks; for the McDowells event, it will be a leather pouch for golf balls and a leather wallet....- Gunny bags account for about 90 percent of the total production of Chinese juteand kenaf textile mills.
- The Chinese jute growing and manufacturing industry reached its zenith in 1985.
Origin Mid 18th century: from Bengali jhūṭo 'matted hair', from Prakrit juṣṭi. Rhymes acute, argute, astute, beaut, Beirut, boot, bruit, brut, brute, Bute, butte, Canute, cheroot, chute, commute, compute, confute, coot, cute, depute, dilute, dispute, flute, galoot, hoot, impute, loot, lute, minute, moot, newt, outshoot, permute, pollute, pursuit, recruit, refute, repute, route, salute, Salyut, scoot, shoot, Shute, sloot, snoot, subacute, suit, telecommute, Tonton Macoute, toot, transmute, undershoot, uproot, Ute, volute Jute2 /dʒuːt /nounA member of a Germanic people that (according to Bede) joined the Angles and Saxons in invading Britain in the 5th century, settling in a region including Kent and the Isle of Wight. They may have come from Jutland.Britain is a mongrel country of Britons, Celts, Scots, Picts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Vikings, Normans, Jews, Huguenots, members of the Empire and Commonwealth, and many more groups....- I would suggest that concentration on teaching the Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Normans in Britain is more likely to achieve her objective.
- Across the North Sea, new Germanic tribes were settling: Angles, Jutes, Saxons.
Derivatives Jutish adjective ...- He probably travelled overland along the Aude - Carcassonne Gap - Garonne - Gironde route to the Atlantic, and then sailed on local shipping to explore the sources of British tin and Jutish amber.
- The Jutish territories around the present city of Southampton were seized by Cædwalla, king of Wessex, c. 686, presumably to acquire excellent harbours and access to the sea.
- Their high king, Vortigern, finding himself beset on all sides by barbarian invaders, hired Anglo-Saxon and Jutish mercenaries from Denmark and north Germany.
Origin Old English Eotas, Iotas, influenced later in spelling by medieval Latin Jutae, Juti. |