Jutes


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(jūts)
prop. n. p1.(Ethnol.) Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.
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The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes occupied territories in the region which includes parts of the present Holland, of Germany about the mouth of the Elbe, and of Denmark.
In my "Authoress of the Odyssey" I thought "Jutland" would be a suitable translation, but it has been pointed out to me that "Jutland" only means the land of the Jutes.
So I got a job at the jute mills--a ten-hour day at ten cents an hour.