Hypertext Webster Gateway: "jute"
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) 1.7 (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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