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Jute

//d͡ʒuːt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The coarse, strong fibre of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A member of the Germanic tribe that existed in modern-day Denmark that invaded England about the same time as the Angles and the Saxons in the beginning of the Middle Ages, but were eventually integrated by the time of the Norman Conquest.

    "No Jute is left to wield a sword to save this hoard. No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward."

  3. 3
    a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons wordnet
  4. 4
    The plants from which this fibre is obtained. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

Borrowed from Bengali ঝুট (jhuṭ). Likely related to Ukrainian джгут (džhut) and Russian жгут (žgut).

Etymology 2

From Latin plural Iuti, Iutae (in Bede), from Old English Ēotas. Ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *eut, from Proto-Germanic *eutaz, *eutaniz. The spelling was later influenced by Medieval Latin Jutae, Juti.

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