Women are engaged in making coir (cocoanut fibre) and in agricultural labour.
There is scarcely any coirrope manufactured at this island, so that the profit which might (were labor cheaper) arise from this application of the coco-nut fibre, is lost.
Coir is also an important article of commerce, being in large demand for the manufacture of coarse brushes, door mats and woven coir-matting for lobbies and passages.
The season for the European ships, and coir cables: of their Guinea trade and of the coasting trade, and whale killing.
These are the cables which I said they keep in their harbours here, to let to hire to European ships, and resemble the coir cables.
The original pre-Christian idea of Flidais was, as in the Coir Annam, that of a being outside the Ulster Cycle altogether.
It seems, then, not impossible that the original legend was much as stated in the Coir Annam, viz.
Coir rope is useful on account of its durability and power of resisting decay during long immersion.
In the year 1853, twenty-three hundred and eighty tons of coir were exported from Ceylon.
The husk of the cocoa-nut is thrown into tanks of water, until the woody or pithy matter is loosened by fermentation from the coir fibre.
The preparation of coir is a dirty and offensive occupation.
The cultivation of the cocoa-nut tree is now carried to a great extent, both by natives and Europeans; by the former it is grown for a variety of purposes, but by the latter its profits are confined to oil, coir and poonac.
We pass under the high stern of a lumbering native craft; its grey sun-bitten woodwork is loosely put together: on a collection of dried palm leaves and coir ropes on the stern, sit the naked, brown crew feeding off a bunch of green bananas.
The roping was done with a thin one-inch coir rope quickly and neatly, not so tight as to make all quite rigid.
In this Colony it often serves for cleaning floors and ships' decks, when the nut is cut into two equal parts across the grain of the coir covering, and with it a very high polish can be put on to hardwoods.
They are sewn together with coir yarn (or cocoa-nut husk fibre), the stitches crossing over a wadding of coir or straw, which presses on the seam and prevents much leakage.
A long hollow cane for a tube, and piece of bark, and some coir saturated with cold water for a condenser, almost any pot or jar will, with a little ingenuity, form a tolerably efficient still.
In some places, leather ropes are used for various purposes, and it is customary to attach big coir (cocoanut fibre) ropes to the bodies of the larger temple cars by leather harness, when they are drawn in procession through the streets.
They climb up and down with their hands and arms, using only a soft grummel of coir (cocoanut fibre) to keep the feet near together.
He keeps the accounts of the trees, and the coir (cocoanut fibre) in the islands, and makes out and delivers the accounts of coir brought to the coast.
There are several cots, some made of coir (cocoanut fibre), and others of wooden planks.
There are factories for cleaning coffee, pressing coir and making matting, making tiles, sawing timber and weaving cotton.
The coir or yarn manufactured from the husks of cocoanuts was prepared by those employed at "hard labour" in the refractory ward.
I should mention that along the rails forward, all our ships in those days carried an immense coir spring for putting on the cables if riding out a south-easter.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coir" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
