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Definition of Burlaps
1. burlap [n] - See also: burlap
Lexicographical Neighbors of Burlaps
Literary usage of Burlaps
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tariff Schedules: Hearings Before the Committee on Ways and Means, House of by Oscar Wilder Underwood (1913)
"PARAGRAPH 352— burlaps. Mr. BOWKER. The 1910 census gives the total tonnage of
fertilizers produced in this country for 1909 as ..."
2. Rose's Notes on the United States Supreme Court Reports (2 Dallas to 241 by Walter Malins Rose, Charles Lawrence Thompson, United States Supreme Court (1917)
"... 91 US 363, 23 L. Ed. 439, construing "burlaps" in revenue statute; Tyng v.
Grinnell, 92 US 470, 23 L. Ed. 734, "wrought iron tubes"; Wieland v. ..."
3. Stephen M. White: Californian, Citizen, Lawyer, Senator. His Life and His by Stephen Mallory White, Robert Woodland Gates, Leroy E. Mosher (1903)
"As the paragraph came to us from the House, burlaps exceeding 60 inches in width
would have paid a duty of 30 per cent, ad valorem, that being in accord ..."
4. Reports of Cases Argued and Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States by Stephen Keyes Williams, Edwin Burritt Smith, Ernest Hitchcock (1885)
"The fact that the burlaps were suitable, and could be and were used for oil-cloth
... The statute here in question declares that "On all burlaps and like ..."
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