sisaladj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsʌɪsl/,

/ˈsʌɪzl/, U.S.

/ˈsaɪs(ə)l/,

/ˈsaɪz(ə)l/

Forms: 1800s–1900s sizal, 1800s– sisal, 1800s– sissal, 1900s– sisol (in sense B. 2), 1900s– sissol (in sense B. 2).

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Sisal

Etymology: < Sisal (Spanish Sisal), the name of a port in Yucatán, Mexico, from which the material was initially exported. N.E.D. (1911) gives the pronunciation as (si·săl, sisā·l) /ˈsɪsəl/ /sɪˈsɑːl/; the first of these pronunciations retains very limited currency, but /ˈsʌɪsl/ became the dominant pronunciation in the early 20th cent., with /ˈsʌɪzl/ now also common.

A. adj.

1. Designating a stiff fibre prepared from the leaves of certain cultivated agave plants, esp. Agave sisalana, originally exported from the port of Sisal to make rope and twine, and now widely used also for matting and other products. Esp. in sisal fibre.Recorded earliest in sisal grass n. at Compounds 1. See also sisal hemp n. at Compounds 1. Cf. henequen n.

ΚΠ

1826 N.Y. Spectator 31 Oct. 300 bales Sisal Grass, similar to Manilla, have arrived this week, but are not yet landed.

1889 Times 9 Mar. 4/3 The issue was an Act..to give substantial encouragement..to the cultivation of the sisal fibre.

1960 W. H. Ingrams Uganda xxii. 251 The Jonam make their own canoes from kikube, obir or musisi trees and their nets and lines from sisal fibre.

1995 M. S. D. Bagachwa & A. V. Y. Mbelle in S. M. Wangwe Exporting Africa viii. 202 Sisal fibre continues to face stiff competition from polyethylene.

2. Made from this fibre.

ΚΠ

1836 New-Albany (Indiana) Gaz. 8 Apr. (advt.) Manilla and Sisal Cordage.

1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 24 White Sisal Rope. White Sisal Lines.

1955 A. M. Lindbergh Gift from Sea viii. 123 I pick up my sisal bag. The sand slips softly under my feet.

1971 T. E. Weil et al. Area Handbk. Venezuela 345 Sisal rugs were also popular.

1998 Church Times 23 Jan. 12/5 I frequently use sisal binder-twine to secure my shrubs.

2006 Vanity Fair Nov. 355/2 There is a sisal carpet, but with a fat, generous weave that doesn't hurt your bare feet.

B. n.

1. Sisal fibre (= sense A. 1); (also) the sisal plant.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > sisal hemp plant

henequen1555

sisal1827

sisal plant1885

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > types of

fimble hemp1484

carl hemp?1523

henequen1555

steel hemp1604

Rusband1633

Riga rhine1639

Russia hemp1663

pass-hemp1742

chucking1785

Manila1826

sisal1827

sisal hemp1828

moorva1855

outshot1858

pass1858

carl doddie1868

outshots1880

1827 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 28 July A sale of 5 tons Sisal was made, yesterday, at $225 per ton, 6 mos.

1895 Daily News 7 Sept. 2/3 Hemp has shown renewed activity... Sisal also is firmer.

1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xviii. 524 Sisal is one of the most important of the ‘hard fibres’, furnishing half the total production of this class of fibre, Mexican sisal affording the greater share.

1942 National Geographic Mag. June 818/2 It is rich in manioc, from which tapioca is made, and in coffee, cacao, sugar, tobacco, rice, raffia, sisal, pepper, and peanut oil.

1947 H. Wyllie Let. in Mariner's Mirror (1948) 34 230 The unavoidable use of sisal instead of hemp for the standing rigging has been the cause of much trouble.

2003 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 36 4 The development of plantations of crops of economic value, such as tea, sisal and cinchona trees, in the colonies.

2. A type of decorative straw produced from sisal fibre and used for making hats.Cf. earlier sisal straw n. at Compounds 1.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > straw > types of

stubble1382

rye straw?1523

kex1550

helm1669

broom-straw1785

Leghorn1817

Tuscan grass1830

buntal1910

baku1927

sisal1928

1928 N.Y. Times 11 Jan. 10 (advt.) Hats of Bakou, sisol, and the new natural color straws.

1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 337/1 Sisal, sisol, sissol, finely woven, smooth, expensive straw, with linen finish; made from sisal, kind of hemp grown mostly in Philippines and shipped to China.

2016 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 29 June 4 This was worn with a matching hat—a brimmed hat of aquamarine sisal decorated with a quirky quill.

Compounds

C1. Compounds of the adjective.

sisal grass n. now historical the fibre prepared from the sisal plant; sisal fibre.

ΚΠ

1826 N.Y. Spectator 31 Oct. 300 bales Sisal Grass, similar to Manilla, have arrived this week, but are not yet landed.

1887 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 6 May 4/8 A cargo of sisal grass for the Plymouth Cordage Company.

2015 J. S. Sledge Mobile River 165 Fruit (particularly bananas), sisal grass, coffee, mahogany, asphalt, and manganese and sulfur ores were key imports.

sisal hemp n. the fibre prepared from the sisal plant; sisal fibre; (also) the plant itself.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > types of

fimble hemp1484

carl hemp?1523

henequen1555

steel hemp1604

Rusband1633

Riga rhine1639

Russia hemp1663

pass-hemp1742

chucking1785

Manila1826

sisal1827

sisal hemp1828

moorva1855

outshot1858

pass1858

carl doddie1868

outshots1880

1828 Aurora & Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 Apr. Sisal Hemp & Logwood.—81 bales Sisal Hemp, 14 tons Logwood, received per brig Ariel from Sisal.

1878 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 36/2 The prosperity which Yucatan in recent years owes to the development of the Sisal hemp trade.

1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 May 6/2 Some thousands of acres of sisal hemp plantations.

1914 J. H. P. Murray in A. J. Herbertson & O. J. R. Howarth Oxf. Surv. Brit. Empire: Australasia 357 Men will brave fever and dysentery and any other risk for the sake of gold, but not for the sake of coco-nuts or sisal hemp.

2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees vii. 143 A. sisalana and A. fourcroydes provide strong fibres—sisal hemp—for ropes and fishing nets.

sisalkraft n. (also sisalcraft) [ < sisal n. + Kraft n.] (a proprietary name for) a type of waterproof insulating material with a core of sisal fibres or (in later use) other material, used in building work.Recorded earliest in attributive use.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plant fibre materials > [noun] > others

balan1340

fer-flax1889

sisalkraft1927

1927 Decatur (Illinois) Sunday Rev. 25 Dec. 26/2 Sisalkraft paper waterproofs the floor against dampness.

1928 Decatur (Illionois) Herald 8 Jan. 18/5 (advt.) Sisalkraft, applied to the walls and under the roof..means absolute protection against air seepage as well as against moisture.

1948 Spectator 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.

1962 Economist 8 Sept. 956/1 The conventional materials..such as bituminised sisalcraft and burlap.

2011 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 30 July (Suppl.) 25 The Australian Sisalkraft Company..developed the concept of adding foil to Sisalkraft to provide insulation.

sisal straw n. = sense B. 2.

ΚΠ

1927 Millinery Materials (Woman's Inst. Domestic Arts & Sci.) i. 22 For imitation of Panama, China produces a hand-woven straw braid by the trade name sisal straw.

2009 K. Henriksen Design & make Fashion Hats 115 A bright pink sisal straw has been sculpted, using steam, into a more abstract design.

C2. Compounds of the noun.

a. General attributive, with the sense ‘relating to the fibre or the plant from which it is obtained’.

ΚΠ

1896 Pall Mall Mag. May 65 Almost all the settlers of this island [sc. Andros] are engaged in Sisal cultivation.

1954 D. Unwin Governor's Wife iii. 58 The huge jaws devoured an endless belt of sisal leaves, chewing them up and spewing out flaccid heaps of blond fibre.

1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) i. 4 Olduvai, so called by the local Maasai after the wild sisal bushes that guard its margins, is a little canyon, thirty miles long.

2000 Guardian (Dar es Salaam) 27 Mar. 16/1 (advt.) The farm was originally a flourishing sisal estate before independence in 1961.

sisal plant n. an agave plant from which sisal fibre is obtained, esp. Agave sisalana, a stout, woody plant bearing a rosette of sword-shaped leaves with a terminal spine, originally cultivated in Mexico and Central America but now widely grown in tropical and subtropical regions.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > sisal hemp plant

henequen1555

sisal1827

sisal plant1885

1885 Farm Implem. News Dec. 13/3 The sisal plant has obtained a world-wide reputation and market for use in making binder-twine.

1968 E. L. Hewett Anc. Life Mexico & Central Amer. vi. iii. 332 Here there grew up a great industry, that of the cultivation of the native sisal plant for the manufacture of hemp.

2005 F. A. Wood & G. A. F. Roberts in G. Prance & M. Nesbitt Cultural Hist. Plants xv. 300 After 6 to 7 years of growth the sisal plant sends out a flower stalk to a height of about 20 feet.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sisal
释义	sisaladj.n. Brit. /ˈsʌɪsl/, /ˈsʌɪzl/, U.S. /ˈsaɪs(ə)l/, /ˈsaɪz(ə)l/ Forms: 1800s–1900s sizal, 1800s– sisal, 1800s– sissal, 1900s– sisol (in sense B. 2), 1900s– sissol (in sense B. 2). Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Sisal Etymology: < Sisal (Spanish Sisal), the name of a port in Yucatán, Mexico, from which the material was initially exported. N.E.D. (1911) gives the pronunciation as (si·săl, sisā·l) /ˈsɪsəl/ /sɪˈsɑːl/; the first of these pronunciations retains very limited currency, but /ˈsʌɪsl/ became the dominant pronunciation in the early 20th cent., with /ˈsʌɪzl/ now also common. A. adj. 1. Designating a stiff fibre prepared from the leaves of certain cultivated agave plants, esp. Agave sisalana, originally exported from the port of Sisal to make rope and twine, and now widely used also for matting and other products. Esp. in sisal fibre.Recorded earliest in sisal grass n. at Compounds 1. See also sisal hemp n. at Compounds 1. Cf. henequen n. ΚΠ 1826 N.Y. Spectator 31 Oct. 300 bales Sisal Grass, similar to Manilla, have arrived this week, but are not yet landed. 1889 Times 9 Mar. 4/3 The issue was an Act..to give substantial encouragement..to the cultivation of the sisal fibre. 1960 W. H. Ingrams Uganda xxii. 251 The Jonam make their own canoes from kikube, obir or musisi trees and their nets and lines from sisal fibre. 1995 M. S. D. Bagachwa & A. V. Y. Mbelle in S. M. Wangwe Exporting Africa viii. 202 Sisal fibre continues to face stiff competition from polyethylene. 2. Made from this fibre. ΚΠ 1836 New-Albany (Indiana) Gaz. 8 Apr. (advt.) Manilla and Sisal Cordage. 1883 Great Internat. Fisheries Exhib. Catal. 24 White Sisal Rope. White Sisal Lines. 1955 A. M. Lindbergh Gift from Sea viii. 123 I pick up my sisal bag. The sand slips softly under my feet. 1971 T. E. Weil et al. Area Handbk. Venezuela 345 Sisal rugs were also popular. 1998 Church Times 23 Jan. 12/5 I frequently use sisal binder-twine to secure my shrubs. 2006 Vanity Fair Nov. 355/2 There is a sisal carpet, but with a fat, generous weave that doesn't hurt your bare feet. B. n. 1. Sisal fibre (= sense A. 1); (also) the sisal plant. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > sisal hemp plant henequen1555 sisal1827 sisal plant1885 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > types of fimble hemp1484 carl hemp?1523 henequen1555 steel hemp1604 Rusband1633 Riga rhine1639 Russia hemp1663 pass-hemp1742 chucking1785 Manila1826 sisal1827 sisal hemp1828 moorva1855 outshot1858 pass1858 carl doddie1868 outshots1880 1827 Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) 28 July A sale of 5 tons Sisal was made, yesterday, at $225 per ton, 6 mos. 1895 Daily News 7 Sept. 2/3 Hemp has shown renewed activity... Sisal also is firmer. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland Text-bk. Trop. Agric. (ed. 2) ii. xviii. 524 Sisal is one of the most important of the ‘hard fibres’, furnishing half the total production of this class of fibre, Mexican sisal affording the greater share. 1942 National Geographic Mag. June 818/2 It is rich in manioc, from which tapioca is made, and in coffee, cacao, sugar, tobacco, rice, raffia, sisal, pepper, and peanut oil. 1947 H. Wyllie Let. in Mariner's Mirror (1948) 34 230 The unavoidable use of sisal instead of hemp for the standing rigging has been the cause of much trouble. 2003 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 36 4 The development of plantations of crops of economic value, such as tea, sisal and cinchona trees, in the colonies. 2. A type of decorative straw produced from sisal fibre and used for making hats.Cf. earlier sisal straw n. at Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > straw > types of stubble1382 rye straw?1523 kex1550 helm1669 broom-straw1785 Leghorn1817 Tuscan grass1830 buntal1910 baku1927 sisal1928 1928 N.Y. Times 11 Jan. 10 (advt.) Hats of Bakou, sisol, and the new natural color straws. 1957 M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 337/1 Sisal, sisol, sissol, finely woven, smooth, expensive straw, with linen finish; made from sisal, kind of hemp grown mostly in Philippines and shipped to China. 2016 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 29 June 4 This was worn with a matching hat—a brimmed hat of aquamarine sisal decorated with a quirky quill. Compounds C1. Compounds of the adjective. sisal grass n. now historical the fibre prepared from the sisal plant; sisal fibre. ΚΠ 1826 N.Y. Spectator 31 Oct. 300 bales Sisal Grass, similar to Manilla, have arrived this week, but are not yet landed. 1887 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 6 May 4/8 A cargo of sisal grass for the Plymouth Cordage Company. 2015 J. S. Sledge Mobile River 165 Fruit (particularly bananas), sisal grass, coffee, mahogany, asphalt, and manganese and sulfur ores were key imports. sisal hemp n. the fibre prepared from the sisal plant; sisal fibre; (also) the plant itself. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > plants, grasses, or reeds > [noun] > vegetable fibre > hemp > types of fimble hemp1484 carl hemp?1523 henequen1555 steel hemp1604 Rusband1633 Riga rhine1639 Russia hemp1663 pass-hemp1742 chucking1785 Manila1826 sisal1827 sisal hemp1828 moorva1855 outshot1858 pass1858 carl doddie1868 outshots1880 1828 Aurora & Pennsylvania Gaz. 15 Apr. Sisal Hemp & Logwood.—81 bales Sisal Hemp, 14 tons Logwood, received per brig Ariel from Sisal. 1878 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 36/2 The prosperity which Yucatan in recent years owes to the development of the Sisal hemp trade. 1893 Westm. Gaz. 27 May 6/2 Some thousands of acres of sisal hemp plantations. 1914 J. H. P. Murray in A. J. Herbertson & O. J. R. Howarth Oxf. Surv. Brit. Empire: Australasia 357 Men will brave fever and dysentery and any other risk for the sake of gold, but not for the sake of coco-nuts or sisal hemp. 2005 C. Tudge Secret Life Trees vii. 143 A. sisalana and A. fourcroydes provide strong fibres—sisal hemp—for ropes and fishing nets. sisalkraft n. (also sisalcraft) [ < sisal n. + Kraft n.] (a proprietary name for) a type of waterproof insulating material with a core of sisal fibres or (in later use) other material, used in building work.Recorded earliest in attributive use. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > plant fibre materials > [noun] > others balan1340 fer-flax1889 sisalkraft1927 1927 Decatur (Illinois) Sunday Rev. 25 Dec. 26/2 Sisalkraft paper waterproofs the floor against dampness. 1928 Decatur (Illionois) Herald 8 Jan. 18/5 (advt.) Sisalkraft, applied to the walls and under the roof..means absolute protection against air seepage as well as against moisture. 1948 Spectator 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. 1962 Economist 8 Sept. 956/1 The conventional materials..such as bituminised sisalcraft and burlap. 2011 Newcastle (Austral.) Herald (Nexis) 30 July (Suppl.) 25 The Australian Sisalkraft Company..developed the concept of adding foil to Sisalkraft to provide insulation. sisal straw n. = sense B. 2. ΚΠ 1927 Millinery Materials (Woman's Inst. Domestic Arts & Sci.) i. 22 For imitation of Panama, China produces a hand-woven straw braid by the trade name sisal straw. 2009 K. Henriksen Design & make Fashion Hats 115 A bright pink sisal straw has been sculpted, using steam, into a more abstract design. C2. Compounds of the noun. a. General attributive, with the sense ‘relating to the fibre or the plant from which it is obtained’. ΚΠ 1896 Pall Mall Mag. May 65 Almost all the settlers of this island [sc. Andros] are engaged in Sisal cultivation. 1954 D. Unwin Governor's Wife iii. 58 The huge jaws devoured an endless belt of sisal leaves, chewing them up and spewing out flaccid heaps of blond fibre. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) i. 4 Olduvai, so called by the local Maasai after the wild sisal bushes that guard its margins, is a little canyon, thirty miles long. 2000 Guardian (Dar es Salaam) 27 Mar. 16/1 (advt.) The farm was originally a flourishing sisal estate before independence in 1961. b. sisal plant n. an agave plant from which sisal fibre is obtained, esp. Agave sisalana, a stout, woody plant bearing a rosette of sword-shaped leaves with a terminal spine, originally cultivated in Mexico and Central America but now widely grown in tropical and subtropical regions. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > yielding fibre, thatching, or basket material > [noun] > sisal hemp plant henequen1555 sisal1827 sisal plant1885 1885 Farm Implem. News Dec. 13/3 The sisal plant has obtained a world-wide reputation and market for use in making binder-twine. 1968 E. L. Hewett Anc. Life Mexico & Central Amer. vi. iii. 332 Here there grew up a great industry, that of the cultivation of the native sisal plant for the manufacture of hemp. 2005 F. A. Wood & G. A. F. Roberts in G. Prance & M. Nesbitt Cultural Hist. Plants xv. 300 After 6 to 7 years of growth the sisal plant sends out a flower stalk to a height of about 20 feet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1826
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