What is "burlap"

Usage examples of "burlap".

When the hemp or marihuana plants are drying, they are hung upside down in a room lined with burlap.

When, after a few weeks, the burlap is taken up, the material covering it is the finest-quality marihuana extraction possible.

How the kitten purred when from coarse burlap, onion sacks, and other permeable material Eddi Amsel sewed shirtlike undergarments.

Then, with a bright smile and an omniscient sense of utter futility, I told everyone to gather at home platea burlap bagto learn how to hold a baseball bat.

It was a typical Antillean house, painted yellow even to the tin roof, with burlap windows and pots of carnations and ferns hanging in the doorway.

Since the tomcats, which had not been fixed, emitted a fierce, uncompromising smell, the musician clouted them with a fire poker one day when for particular reasons he found the smell particularly distasteful, stuffed their remains in a potato sack, carried the sack down four flights of stairs, and was in a great hurry to stow the bundle in the garbage can in the court beside the carpet rack, because the burlap was not water- nor bloodproof and began to drip before he was even half down the stairs.

Her skin was the color of lumber, say pine or spruce, washed with a tincture of creosote and slightly aged out of doors: browner than white and lighter than, say, beans of coffee in their burlap sacks.

Mexican bandit was tied to a cottonwood tree and his head sewn-up in a burlap sack of diamondback rattlers.

Zero was getting himself situated up there, Stanley attached the sack to the shovel by poking a hole through the burlap.

And I wondered how Xuey, Sergeant Schenk, and the party were faring out in the hills, for they carried not even burlaps.

Bobby as they passed booths where pennies were pitched into tiny bowls of goldfish, rings were tossed onto green glass Coke bottles, baseballs were thrown at burlap cats that never seemed to fall over.

The groggy Soul Mate groping for its Twin, The burgling free verse Blear, the Hobo Pote, Clairvoyant, Cubist bug and Burlapped Greek, Souse Socialists and queens with bright green hair, Ginks leading barbered Art Dogs trimmed and Sleek, The Greenwich Stable Dwellers, Mule and Mare, Pal Anarchs, tamed and wrapped in evening duds, Philosophers who go wherever suds Flow free, musicians hunting after eats, And sandaled dames who hang from either ear Strange lumps -- "art jools" -- the size of pickled beets, Writers that write not, hunting Atmosphere, Painters and sculptors that ne'er paint nor sculp, Reformers taking notes on Brainstorm Slum, Cave Men in Windsor Ties, all gauche and glum, With strong iron jaws that crush their food to Pulp, And bright Boy Cynics playing paradox, And th' inevitable She that knitteth Belgian socks -- A score of little groups !

Catatonic youths dressed as women in gowns of burlap and rotten rags, faces heavily and crudely painted in bright colors over a strata of beatings, arabesques of broken, suppurating scars to the pearly bone, push against the passer-by in silent clinging insistence.

There was a small window with just a piece of burlap for a curtain, but there was no bacony, and it was a good thirty feet to the ground.

Its earliest habit was burlap rags and bindlestiffs—the uniform of the simpleton mob.