Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Fiber obtained from the leaves of the palmyra, carnauba, and other palms.
Etymologies
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Examples
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People washed their clothes on slabs of smooth shiny stones propped up at a slight angle, and used palm-fiber brushes to clean them.
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The washed leaves are stripped from the stalks and dried on palm-fiber mats.
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Roomy, baggy, spotless, linen trousers do homage to the heat, as does his broad, palm-fiber hat, used chiefly as a fan.
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Malays, is the _palang anus_, which is a ring or collar of plaited palm-fiber, furnished with a pair of stiffish horns of the same wiry material; it is worn on the neck of the glans and fits tight to the skin so as not to slip off.
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Tacked to Olsen's office wall is a woven palm-fiber basket that looks like a giant Chinese finger trap.
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Its skeleton remains complete, including its sides, bottom, curved ribs (to support the sides), stringers (to fasten the ribs) and wooden pegs, as well as palm-fiber ropes to fasten the ribs to knobs on the inside of the sides.
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Unusually there are also L-shaped planks in the stern - with those in the bow probably having been lost - for reinforcement due to the palm-fiber rope holes.
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Unusually, there are also L-shaped planks in the stern - with those in the bow probably having been lost - for reinforcement due to the palm-fiber rope holes.
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Twelve of the boat's 17 ribs are still joined to its flanks, with their palm-fiber ropes still partly tied in their knots.
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