(n.) A coarse fabric, made of jute or hemp, used for bagging; also, a finer variety of similar material, used for curtains, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) Fungus soiling of burlap was not clearly diminished by prescribed applications of Impregon solution 3 mo previously.
(2) Observing this is like watching a cat try to escape a burlap sack.
(3) They were Italian-Americans who collected our trash in large burlap sacks that they’d throw over their shoulders before going back down the 30 or so stairs to their truck.
(4) It's just an hour, and even my fashion-snob self could cope with wearing a burlap sack for an hour.
(5) You will find a pack of coppers backed by the staff of GQ on your front stoop with a giant burlap sack, ready to confiscate all your denim items.
(6) To assess its effects, this agent was used as a laundry and paint additive and as a treatment for burlap rug backing; after recommended applications of Impregon, coded replicate materials were inoculated with mixed suspensions of fungus particles.
(7) One self-styled prophet wore burlap cloth and clutched an enormous book he had labelled in homemade block letters: HOLY BIBLE.
Linoleum
Definition:
(n.) Linseed oil brought to various degrees of hardness by some oxidizing process, as by exposure to heated air, or by treatment with chloride of sulphur. In this condition it is used for many of the purposes to which India rubber has been applied.
(n.) A kind of floor cloth made by laying hardened linseed oil mixed with ground cork on a canvas backing.
Example Sentences:
(1) Dust and mites were significantly less in dormitories with linoleum than those with carpets (P less than .05 and .01, respectively).
(2) Following previous experiments on postmortem skull fractures of infants, falls from 82-cm heights onto stone (A), carpet (B) and foam-backed linoleum (C), 35 further falling tests were carried out onto softly cushioned ground.
(3) Many of the cells were dirty, with ripped linoleum floors and dirty toilets without seats, the report said.
(4) Ismail lies on green linoleum sheets, his black eyes too large for his gaunt face.
(5) The town was then entering a period of industrial decline - Brown recalls people coming to the door begging when the linoleum factory closed down.
(6) For Booth, Northland is still downtown, and the linoleum jungle is home.
(7) His behaviour was similarly unremarkable: he brought diamonds for jewellers to examine and, much like any dealer, he would frequently enter the grand stone doorway of 88-90 Hatton Garden and disappear down the dark green linoleum staircase to the basement, home to the Hatton Garden Safety Deposit Ltd, where he would visit the four strongboxes he had hired there in a vault measuring 15 feet square.
(8) Dust samples from fitted-carpets and linoleum floors in 12 schools in Norway were collected by vacuum cleaning.
(9) Sometimes you even manage to get out of the shop before the carefully assembled pyramid of shiraz hits the linoleum.