jute

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)The coarse, strong fibre of the East Indian plants, Corchorus olitorius and Corchorus capsularis, used to make mats, paper, gunny cloth etc.
2. (countable, uncountable)The plants from which this fibre is obtained.
3. A member of the Germanic tribe that existed in modern-day Denmark that invaded England about the same time as the Angles and the Saxons in the beginning of the Middle Ages, but were eventually integrated by the time of the Norman Conquest.

   “No Jute is left to wield a sword to save this hoard. No one is left to swing the battle-ax skyward.”