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| 1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) | ||
jute
n 1: a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks
2: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and
merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons
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| 2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Jute \Jute\ (j[=u]t), n. [Hind. j[=u]t, Skr. j[=u][.t]a matted hair; cf. ja[.t]a matted hair, fibrous roots.] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian Corchorus olitorius, and Corchorus capsularis; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc. [1913 Webster] | ||
| 3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ||
Jutes \Jutes\ (j[=u]ts), prop. n. pl. sing. Jute. (Ethnol.) Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century. [1913 Webster] | ||
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