jute n 1: a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks 2: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons
Jute \Jute\ (j[=u]t), n. [Hind. j[=u]t, Skr. j[=u][.t]a matted hair; cf. ja[.t]a matted hair, fibrous roots.] The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian {Corchorus olitorius}, and {Corchorus capsularis}; also, the plant itself. The fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage, hangings, paper, etc. [1913 Webster]
Jutes \Jutes\ (j[=u]ts), prop. n. pl. sing. {Jute}. (Ethnol.) Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century. [1913 Webster]