Lexicographical Neighbors of Gomuto
Literary usage of Gomuto
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People (1878)
"At the base of the leaves of the gomuto palm there is a fine woolly material,
called /"//•", much employed in caulking ships and stuffing cushions. ..."
2. Transactions of the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of by Royal Society of Arts (Great Britain), Society of Arts (1815)
"The Superintendant having represented that the cultivation of the gomuto tree,
of which we are now in complete possession, may be carried on to any extent; ..."
3. Cyclopædia of India and of Eastern and Southern Asia, Commercial, Industrial by Edward Balfour (1871)
"The best gomuto is the produce of the islands farthest east, ... gomuto is
generally sold in twisted shreds or yarns, often as low as a Spanish dollar a ..."
4. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Chambers, W. and R., publ (1876)
"They need no preparation but spinning or twisting. No ropes of vegetable fibre
are so imperishable, when often wet, as those made of gomuto fibre. ..."
5. Library of Universal Knowledge: A Reprint of the Last (1880) Edinburgh and (1880)
"They need no preparation but spinning or twisting. No ropes of vegetable fiber
are so imperishable, when often wet. as those made of gomuto fiber. ..."
6. The Fibrous Plants of India Fitted for Cordage, Clothing, and Paper: With an by John Forbes Royle (1855)
"The best gomuto is the produce of the islands farthest east, ... gomuto is
generally sold in twisted shreds or yarns, often as low as a Spanish dollar a ..."
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