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3 definitions found 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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