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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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 {C. capsularis}; also the plant itself The
fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage,
hangings, paper, etc
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Jutes \Jutes\ (j[=u]ts), n. pl sing. {Jute}. (Ethnol.)
Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which
settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
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
[syn: {Jute}]
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