Vegetable fiber from the leaves of Agave sisalana.
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Examples for "sisal"
Examples for "sisal"
1Or, he said, supermarkets might decide to hand out free sisal bags.
2He had also found wild sisal in the rocky places of the island.
3So he set about weaving a sail of his sisal fibre.
4A plastic gallon drum was buckling and melding to the sisal hall carpet.
5The small man picked up the twenty-pound sisal bag resting in the corner.
1The fibre of the agave, known as sisal hemp, is used in the manufacture of rope, twine, mats, brushes, etc.
2The essential feature in the economic production of sisal hemp is machinery for separating the fibre from the pulp of the leaf.
3The sisal hemp, pineapple, yucca, and a number of fiber plants growing in the southern part of the United States are worthy of note.
1As used in the text, pita means, apparently, some braid or other ornament of agave fibers.
Translations for agave fiber