Coir dragging down boats and buoys. The name coir comes from "kayar", the Malayalam word for cord. Ropes and cordage have been made from coconut fibre since ancient times. Indian navigators who sailed the seas to Malaya, Java, China, and the Gulf of Arabia centuries ago used coir for their ship ropes. Arab writers of the 11th century AD referred to the extensive use of coir for ship ropes and rigging. A coir industry in the UK was recorded before the second half of the 19th century. During 1840, Captain Widely, in co-operation with Captain Logan and Mr. Thomas Treloar, founded
Ingrid (given name) but picked up again in the late 1970s, peaking above 1.5% in the 1990s. The name became popular outside of Scandinavia from the 1940s due to the fame of Ingrid Bergman. Ingrid (given name) Ingrid is a Scandinavian, German, and Dutch feminine given name. It continues the Old Norse name "Ingiríðr", which was a short form of "Ingfríðr", composed of the theonym "Ing" and the element "fríðr" "beloved; beautiful" common in Germanic feminine given names. The name Ingrid (more rarely in the variant "Ingerid" or "Ingfrid"; short forms "Inga, Inger, Ingri") remains widely given in all of Scandinavia, with the