Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In com., a collective name for articles manufactured from esparto and its fiber, as mats, nets, cordage, and ropes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Articles made of the blades or fiber of the
Lygeum Spartum andStipa tenacissima (syn.Macrochloa tenacissima ), kinds of grass used in Spain and other countries for making ropes, mats, baskets, nets, and mattresses.
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It is stated in the Farmer's Encyclopædia that by splitting the wood of the white poplar into thin shavings like tape or braid, the stuff called sparterie, used for hats, is manufactured.
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