A bushel of dried flax stalks, woody and fibrous, ready for retting or scutching by a fiber-worker. Flax is the raw material of linen; a merchant trades the harvest by weight to weavers and rope-makers. The seeds are also valuable for oil and meal, pressed by a chandler or miller and used in cooking, lamps, and as a purgative tonic.
Flax
Dried stalks; raw material of linen, seeds press for oil and meal.