flax
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Competitive sailing is never going back to the days of wooden hulls or flax sails, but when it comes to the internet, maybe there’s a lesson in there somewhere.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
The couple also spent time visiting a flax farm in County Tyrone where they were shown the modern methods being used to make linen.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2025
The specific brand of noncracker crackers that she recommends frequently are made of flax seeds, and are called, unfortunately, Flackers.
From Slate ● May 10, 2025
But a host of other row crops are also used as a source of oils, including cotton, corn, safflower, peanut and flax.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2024
For that’s what a field of flax in bloom looks like: acres and acres of sea-blue flowers, rippling in the August winds like waves.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
The Hoffs flaxes are reckoned in a similar way.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
The New Zealand flax gives the most perfectly soluble nitrates of any of the flaxes.
From Nitro-Explosives: A Practical Treatise by P. Gerald (Percy Gerald) Sanford
The quotations for the various kinds of flaxes are made with one or other special mark termed a base mark; this usually, but not necessarily, indicates the lowest quality.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
The marks in the Crown flaxes have the following signification:— K means Crown and is usually the base mark.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 4 "Finland" to "Fleury, Andre" by Various
It. ij calevers wth flaxes and tuch boxe.
From Curious Church Customs and Cognate Subjects by William Andrews
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