Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Cordage formed by braiding several strands of rope fiber or similar material.
- noun Braided straw, grass, or palm leaves for making hats.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Nautical, a sort of flat braided cordage used for various purposes, and formed by plaiting rope-yarns or spun yarn together; also, grass or straw plaited by seamen for making hats.
- noun See
sennet .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Naut.) A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.
- noun Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun
braided cord orfabric of such small stuff asplaited rope yarns - noun
straw orgrass which is braid for ahat
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun flat braided cordage that is used on ships
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw.
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He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw.
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High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat -- a sealer's boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No. 2.
Chapter 29 1904
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We had also made a quantity of string, or what sailors call sennit, which, twisted together, would serve as cordage for the vessel.
The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Even the largest houses have not a nail in them, but are fastened together with sennit, which is a line made from the root of a tree.
Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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China soup-plate, perforated and strung on coconut sennit, suspended from about his neck so that it rested flat on his chest and half-concealed the generous swell of muscles.
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He was brought in, heavy-featured and defiant, his arms bound with cocoanut sennit, the dry blood still on his body from the struggle with his captors.
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Sixty feet in the clear, the dim fire occasionally lighted, through shadowy cross-beams, the ridge-pole that was covered with sennit of coconut that was braided in barbaric designs of black and white and that was stained by the smoke of years almost to a monochrome of dirty brown.
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Next, Lamai tied him securely with a sennit cord about the neck and untied the cords that bit into his legs.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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So it was, after low whinings and whimperings, that he applied his sharp first-teeth to the sennit cord and chewed upon it till it parted.
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chained_bear commented on the word sennit
"...the bargemen themselves had done all that naval ingenuity could devise in the article of whole duck trousers and white sennit hats." --Patrick O'Brian, The Fortune of War, p. 9
February 5, 2008