jute

Definitions


[dʒuːt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- rough fibre made from the stems of a tropical Old World plant, used for making twine and rope or woven into sacking or matting

- the herbaceous plant which is cultivated for jute fibre, with edible young shoots


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Origin:
mid 18th century: from Bengali jhūṭo ‘matted hair’, from Prakrit juṣṭi


[dʒuːt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a member of a Germanic people that (according to Bede) joined the Angles and Saxons in invading Britain in the 5th century, settling in a region including Kent and the Isle of Wight. They may have come from Jutland


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Origin:
Old English Eotas, Iotas, influenced later in spelling by medieval Latin Jutae, Juti




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