coarse fiber
coarse fibre

At this point there is still straw, or coarse fibers, remaining.

The coarse fibers gave him a bellyache, but otherwise seemed not to faze him.

Although slowing this speed down can make coarser fiber, it is uneconomic to run at speeds for which the nozzles were not designed.

Wicker furniture is made by weaving strands of coarse fibers around a frame, which remains as the core of the piece.

Karakul is relatively coarse fiber used for outer garment, carpets and for felting.

Now, these boots have peculiar soles: they alternate bars of powerful magnets with ridges of a coarse fiber.

According to the town's Web site, the property cost him "a blanket, a piece of cloth, a shirt, a loaf of bread and some coarse fiber."

In spite of his coarse fiber, he could appreciate the nobility behind such a confession as this, and the deeps of stern suffering it sounded.

Alpaca wool - unlike the coarser fiber yielded by llama fleece - has long been prized in Europe as a luxurious fashion fabric.

The main coat is made up of coarse fibers (average 59 micrometers) called guard hairs, and the downy undercoat (average 18.5 micrometers).

The end products of scutching flax are the long flax fibers, short coarser fibers called tow and waste woody matter called shive.

As she twisted the coarse fibers, a fine rich liquor was forced out, and this was the sweet coconut milk that would complete the dish she was preparing.

Breeds such as Lincoln, Romney, Tukidale, Drysdale and Elliotdale produce coarser fibers, and wool from these sheep is usually used for making carpets.

A hand came up to touch him; tentative, almost terrified, and the current sparked, jumping into the coarse fibers of his fur and burrowing down into his skin "Urrrgghh,"he said again in response.

Following the directions in her useful little pamphlet, she had made several sturdy lengths of rope from the coarse fiber of the polly tree, with which she could secure the hatchet to her body.

Like all the soap plants, Chlorogalum pomeridianum is a perennial that grows from a bulb, which is brown, between 7 and 15 cm in diameter, slightly elongated, and covered in thick, coarse fibers.

The texture of the stalk surface ranges from fibrillose (appearing to be made of coarse fibers arranged longitudinally) to more or less smooth, and the stalk base will stain a dirty brown to yellow colour when bruised.

And then, suddenly, his eyes snapped into focus upon the coarse fibers of the ant's midsection swinging before him and the claws smacking down viselike onto his upper arms and the pincers. . . the pincers!

All worked together at pounding the nilgu into cloth and braiding the coarse fibers for ropes and nets; at fishing and drying the fish and shaping whale-ivory into tools, and all the other tasks of the rafts.

As a widower, Juan Diego walked every Saturday and Sunday to church, and on cold mornings, wore a woven cloth called a tilma, or ayate made with coarse fibers from the maguey cactus, as cotton was only used by the upper class Aztec.

He scrubbed his face against the coarse fibre of the rope; the relief was like a world conquered.

I reached out hesitantly and grasped the coarse fibre of the flour-sack.

Moreover, it yields a strong, coarse fibre commonly woven into ropes in the villages of India.

Good meadow ha is ideal for sheep, who tend to waste the coarser fibres in 'see' hay.

Coir is a coarse fibre extracted from the fibrous outer shell of a coconut.

It felt like coarse fibre.

The dark coffee spilt in my saucer, defiling the coarse fibres into a soggy brown pulp.

It's not large, it's of a suitable nut shape, it's covered with a fine but coarse fibre like pubic hair.

Broad wads of coarse fibre were thrust in to hold the charge, and rammed home with a heavy felt pad on the original ten-foot pole.

The wet-resistant outer coat contains long, coarse fibres, while the insulating layer beneath consists of soft, short fibres.

"To say that art diminishes the coarse fibres of human nature may be true, or may not," he writes, "but is no guide to how to spend the public's money."

There was a sack drawn over his head, and a length of linen dragged the coarse fibres into his mouth and was secured behind his neck.

The stems produce two types of fibre, a coarser fibre in the outer layer (bast fibre), and a finer fibre in the core.

Mechanical filters draw air through flat, coarse fibres to remove any large particles such as airborne dust and pollen, or through pleated, fine filters to remove small ones like bacteria.

Fine fibres may be utilised in the production of fine garments such as men's suits whereas the coarser fibres may be used for the production of carpet and other sturdy products.

The mat slid forward another foot, and snagged on the gunwale, sea water slopped inboard, ankle-deep around their rubber boots as they strained and heaved at the reluctant mass of coarse fibre.

Once the Amadoda had learned the weight and balance of the heavy pikes they could hurl them the length of the ship to bury the iron heads full length in the mat of coarse fibres.

Scarlet, with the sentimentality of the deprived and the perceptions of the health-conscious, admired enormously their wholesome lack of refinement, their coarse fibre, their willingness to say what they meant without deceit or searching for means of extended expression.