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Examples of burlap
burlap
The mill extracts the plant's juice, which filters through burlap into a barrel.
From the tennessean.com
If that's not possible, then wrap them with burlap or towels to block the light.
From the newsday.com
They filled more than 100 burlap sacks Thursday and stopped to eat some oysters.
From the stltoday.com
Tables and chairs were draped with black cloths and accented with burlap fabric.
From the al.com
All were crammed into bursting burlap bags and sold to McCormick with its spice.
From the economist.com
One day somebody brings in a burlap bag full of snarled, dirty asparagus roots.
From the businessweek.com
All were dumped, wrapped in burlap and unburied, near the parkway in Gilgo Beach.
From the newsday.com
After I plant it, should I protect it over the winter with burlap or tar paper?
From the newsday.com
Back in Brooklyn, her father, Charles St. Hill, worked in a burlap-bag factory.
From the time.com
- Coarse jute fabric
- A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax, or hemp, and used to make sacks etc
- Burlap is a type of cloth often used for sacks.
- A loosely constructed, heavy weight, plain weave fabric used as a carpet backing, and as inexpensive packaging for sacks of grain or rice. Also, as fashion dictates, burlap may also appear as a drapery fabric.
- A coarse woven fabric usually made from jute fibers and allied vegetable fibers. It is often used to make sacks and bags to ship goods like coffee beans. It is breathable and thus resists condensation and associated spoilage of the contents. ...
- A densely constructed, heavy weight, plain weave fabric with a coarse texture. It is also called jute, as it is made from jute and vegetable fibers.
- A coarsely textured material used to make casual bags such as school bags, backpacks and satchels.
- A coarse canvas made of jute or hemp, used for bagging (OED).
- Coarse cloth woven from jute, hemp, or a similar rough thread.
