▪ I. sennit Naut.
(ˈsɛnɪt)
Also 9 sennet.
[var. of sinnet.]
a. = sinnet. b. (See quot. 1858.)
| 1769 Falconer Dict. Marine (1789), Sennit. 1858 Simmonds Dict. Trade, Sennit,..plaited straw or palm leaves, &c., of which grass hats are made. 1881 Chequered Career 92 These young gentlemen are to be seen..making sennet, the latter amusement being on a par with picking oakum. |
| attrib. and Comb. 1882 Nares Seamanship (ed. 6) 79 A sennit eye is worked in. c 1898 J. Chalmers in Lovett Life (1902) 146 The long sennit hawser kept on deck had been passed ashore to natives on the reef. |
▪ II. sennit, -nyght, -nyȝt, -nyt
obs. ff. sennight.