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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
jute
noun
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▪ Heavy pearl drops of dew splashed noisily on jute leaves that had fallen to the ground.
▪ In Lower Dens are some fine jute mills built in 1866.
▪ Nearly 140,000 workers in 53 jute mills across West Bengal went on strike on Jan. 28 demanding higher wages.
▪ Secondly, the development of Northern technology has resulted in synthetic substitutes for many natural products, e.g. jute and rubber.
▪ The jute had an acrid smell that scooped up the rank aroma of moist earth as it leapt from the ground.
▪ The local jute industry employed forty thousand people in the early years of the present century.
▪ With Jinju still perched on his back, Gao Ma dashed into the jute fields.
▪ With one kick, he sent her flying into the jute field.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Jute

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.

Jute

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Jute

Old English Eotas, one of the ancient Germanic inhabitants of Jutland in Denmark; traditionally they were said to have settled in Kent and Hampshire during the 5c. invasion of Britain. The name is related to Old Norse Iotar.

jute

plant fiber, 1746, from Bengali jhuto, from Sanskrit juta-s "twisted hair," related to jata "braid of hair," of unknown origin, probably from a non-Indo-European language.

Wiktionary
jute

n. 1 The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian plant, (taxlink Corchorus olitorius species noshow=1), used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc. 2 The plants from which this fibre is obtained.

WordNet
jute

  1. n. 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

Wikipedia
Jute

Jute is a long, soft, shiny vegetable fiber that can be spun into coarse, strong threads. It is produced primarily from plants in the genus Corchorus, which was once classified with the family Tiliaceae, more recently with Malvaceae, and has now been reclassified as belonging to the family Sparrmanniaceae. The primary source of the fiber is Corchorus olitorius, but it is considered inferior to Corchorus capsularis. "Jute" is the name of the plant or fiber that is used to make burlap, Hessian or gunny cloth.

The word 'jute' is probably coined from the word jhuta or jota, an Oriya word.

Jute is one of the most affordable natural fibers and is second only to cotton in amount produced and variety of uses of vegetable fibers. Jute fibers are composed primarily of the plant materials cellulose and lignin. It falls into the bast fiber category (fiber collected from bast, the phloem of the plant, sometimes called the "skin") along with kenaf, industrial hemp, flax ( linen), ramie, etc. The industrial term for jute fiber is raw jute. The fibers are off-white to brown, and 1–4 metres (3–13 feet) long. Jute is also called the golden fiber for its color and high cash value.

Jute (disambiguation)

Jute can refer to:

  • A Germanic people, the Jutes

A fibre, jute, made from several species of plants which are also referred to as jute, particularly:

  • the genus Corchorus
    • Corchorus capsularis, white jute
    • Corchorus olitorius, Nalta jute or Tossa jute
  • Abutilon theophrasti, Chinese jute
  • Hibiscus cannabinus, Java jute

Usage examples of "jute".

Hooking Jute by the elbow, Shoy led him to a newsstand and bought an evening newspaper.

TWENTY minutes later, Rigger Shoy and Jute Bantry were seated in a cozy booth in the corner of an exclusive cocktail lounge.

There was only one spot that Jute could not observe, the booth next to his own.

There was a long pause, during which Jute Bantry sampled his second drink.

The mob had been wiped out to the last man, with the exception of Jute Bantry, and the bonds were not in the stronghold.

Jute a fifty-fifty deal, the same terms that Jute had made with Fence Cortho.

The only answers that The Shadow heard were the gurgles that came when Jute took another swallow of his drink.

Whatever his terms with Fence Cortho, Jute was willing to make the same again.

All of which made Jute like the Q proposition, since he was dealing with someone who had the police baffled.

From all reports of Thurgin, the man was as canny, as tight-lipped, as Jute made him out to be.

It might prove disastrous for the girl should crooks see her coming from the house where Jute Bantry soon would enter.

Reaching the office, Jute tested the windows, made sure that the shutter slats were tight.

Like The Shadow, Jute made his first foray in the direction of the filing cabinet.

Starting at the bottom drawer, which was most likely to hold long-stored items, Jute worked upward.

Moreover, Jute remembered the Gibraltar as a bank that kept open evenings, which was why Thurgin had preferred it.