Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place into which dregs, dirt, etc., are thrown; a sink.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun obsolete A place for
dregs anddirt ; asink ; asewer .
Etymologies
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Latin sentina ("bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs"): compare French sentine.
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Examples
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This alonely I can say grossly, and as in a sum, of the which all we (our hurt is the more) have experience, the devil to be a stinking sentine of all vices; a foul filthy channel of all mischiefs; and that this world, his son, even a child meet to have such a parent, is not much unlike his father.
Sermons on the Card Hugh Latimer 1858
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