retting
To "ret" is to soak plant material (flax, jute, hemp, kenaf, etc) to loosen the fibers. Wikipedia notes that you can also ret by leaving the crop in the fields,...
Archive for March 24, 2006
gunnysack
I've known the word "gunnysack" (for a burlap bag) since I was a kid, but it was only a few days ago that it finally occurred to me to wonder...