sennit
noun
a flat, braided cordage, formed by plaiting strands of rope yarn or other fiber, used as small stuff aboard ships.
sinnet
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a variation of
sennit.
Example Sentences
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Small ropes made of sinnet, and fastened to grummets or little rings upon the yards.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
"I expect he's gone to tell the Old Man," Tammy remarked, as we went forrard, carrying the mat and his sinnet.
From The Ghost Pirates by William Hope Hodgson
A sultry hour, and I wore a light hat, of yellow sinnet, with white duck trowsers—both relics of my tropic sea-going.
From The Piazza Tales by Herman Melville
The chief's mata looks out, and announces the arrival of some subject clan with an offering—a roll of sinnet, a bale of cloth, a turtle, and the inevitable root of kava.
From The Fijians A Study of the Decay of Custom by Basil Thomson
While the young men were doing this, the old men at home were all day beating cocoanut husk, to separate the fibre for making sinnet.
From The Old Helmet, Volume II by Susan Warner
