VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / gunny cloth

Thesaurus: gunny cloth

A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

coarsedefinitiongunnydefinitioncalleddefinitioncorchorusdefinitioncordagedefinitionfiberdefinitionfibersdefinitiongenusdefinitionindiadefinitionjutedefinitionkinddefinitionmanufacturedefinitionplantsdefinitionsackingdefinitionstrongdefinitionbagdefinitioncommoditiesdefinitionsackdefinitiongunny sackfamilygunnysackfamilygunnelsneighborgunnerneighborgunnersneighborgunneryneighborgunnery sergeantneighborgunnieneighborgunnin' itneighborgunningneighbor

Definitions

  1. A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage.
  2. A strong, coarse kind of sacking, made from the fibers (called jute) of two plants of the genus Corchorus (C. olitorius and C. capsularis), of India. The fiber is also used in the manufacture of cordage. Gunny bag, a sack made of gunny, used for coarse commodities.