| 单词 | sisal fibre |
| 释义 | > as lemmassisal fibre 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. < as lemmas |
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