burlap
n. uncountablen. a strong, rough fabric made from jute or hemp. It is usually brown and used for making bags, sacks, or covering things like plants.
n. a coarse, durable fabric made from jute, hemp, or other vegetable fibres. Often used for industrial packaging or as a protective covering for plants and trees.
The farmer used burlap to make a bag for the potatoes.
During the winter, the gardener wrapped the young trees in burlap to protect them from the cold wind.
The heavy sacks of grain were transported across the desert on camel backs, their rough burlap surfaces providing enough friction to prevent the cargo from shifting during the journey.
Uncertain. Attested since about 1695 in the spelling bore-lap, borelapp. Likely from burel (“a coarse woollen cloth”) + lap (“flap of a garment”), where the first element is from Middle English burel, borel. Others feel that "its character and time of appearance makes a Dutch origin very likely" (and the earliest references as to its importation from the Netherlands); the NED suggests derivation from Dutch boenlap (“coarse, rubbing linen or cloth”) with the first element perhaps confused with boer (“farmer, peasant”). Bense similarly suggests derivation from an unattested Dutch *boerenlap, where boeren would be used in the sense of “coarse” as in boerenkost (“coarse, heavy food as is eaten by farmers”) or boerenpraat (“coarse, rural speech”).