(US) A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.
(US) A very strong, coarse cloth, made from jute, flax or hemp, and used to make sacks, etc.
“A ranger responded and found two whole chickens in a burlap sack in a hot spring,” she said. A cooking pot was also found nearby.
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A kind of coarse woolen cloth, having a thick nap or frieze.
(now, chiefly, US) A plain, coarse textile fabric made from flax, tow or jute yarns.
(US) Fabric made of cotton, flax (linen), hemp, or silk, finely or coarsely woven.
A soft container made out of cloth, paper, thin plastic, etc. and open at the top, used to hold food, commodities, and other goods.
“The Mongols would sometimes stuff a person into a burlap sack, sew it closed and then have them trampled to death by horses”
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(transitive) To wrap or cover in burlap.
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