SENNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sennit mean? 

• SENNIT (noun)
  The noun SENNIT has 1 sense:

1. flat braided cordage that is used on ships

  Familiarity information: SENNIT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SENNIT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Flat braided cordage that is used on ships

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("sennit" is a kind of...):

cordage (the ropes in the rigging of a ship)

 Context examples 

The hunters have experimented and practised with their rifles and shotguns till they are satisfied, and the boat-pullers and steerers have made their spritsails, bound the oars and rowlocks in leather and sennit so that they will make no noise when creeping on the seals, and put their boats in apple-pie order—to use Leach’s homely phrase.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

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.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)