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