Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Jute \Jute\ (j[=u]t), n. [Hind. j[=u]t, Skr. j[=u][.t]a matted
   hair; cf. ja[.t]a matted hair, fibrous roots.]
   The coarse, strong fiber of the East Indian {Corchorus
   olitorius}, and {C. capsularis}; also, the plant itself. The
   fiber is much used for making mats, gunny cloth, cordage,
   hangings, paper, etc.

Jutes \Jutes\ (j[=u]ts), n. pl. sing. {Jute}. (Ethnol.)
   Jutlanders; one of the Low German tribes, a portion of which
   settled in Kent, England, in the 5th century.

Source : WordNet®

jute
     n 1: a plant fiber used in making rope or sacks
     2: a member of a Germanic people who conquered England and
        merged with the Angles and Saxons to become Anglo-Saxons