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sisal|ˈsaɪs(ə)l; formerly also ˈsɪsəl, sɪˈsɑːl|
Also sissal and with capital initial.
[See def.]
1. The name of a port in Yucatan, used attrib. with sisal fibre, sisal grass, sisal hemp, to designate the prepared fibre of several species of Agave and Fourcroya, which is largely exported from that place for use in rope-making. Also sisal plant, the aloe or other plant from which the fibre is obtained.
1843Penny Cycl. XXVII. 724/1 None of its agricultural products yield articles of export, except the Sisal hemp. 1859All Year Round No. 32. 126 The sisal hemp, which is the product of the Agave Americana, is also very enticing to the speculator. 1887Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 6 May 4/8 A cargo of sisal grass for the Plymouth Cordage Company. 1889Times 9 Mar. 4/3 The issue was an Act..to give substantial encouragement..to the cultivation of the sisal fibre. 1889D. Morris Kew Bulletin No. 27. 60 The true Sisal plant is Agave rigida.
attrib.1878Encycl. Brit. XVI. 36/2 The prosperity which Yucatan in recent years owes to the development of the Sisal hemp trade. 1882Christy New Commercial Pl. No. 6. 43 The Giant Lily or Sisal Hemp Plant of South America (Fourcroya gigantea). 1893Westm. Gaz. 27 May 6/2 Some thousands of acres of sisal hemp plantations.
2. ellipt. = prec. Chiefly attrib.
1883Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 24 White Sisal Rope. White Sisal Lines. 1895Daily News 7 Sept. 2/3 Hemp has shown renewed activity... Sisal also is firmer. 1896Pall Mall Mag. May 65 Almost all the settlers of this island [sc. Andros] are engaged in Sisal cultivation.
3. Special combs., as sisalcraft, -kraft, a waterproof material with a core of sisal fibres.
1940Chambers's Techn. Dict. 774/1 Sisalcraft. 1945Jrnl. R. Army Med. Corps LXXXIV. 98 The sisalcraft and blankets already sewn up. 1948Spectator 9 Apr. 430/1 The wooden huts in which the occupants of Antarctic bases live are specially designed with layers of tinfoil and sisalkraft between the inner and outer walls. 1961[see sark v. 2]. 1962Economist 8 Sept. 956/1 The conventional materials..such as bituminised sisalcraft and burlap. |