sasse

Dutch sas, from French sas (“the basin of a waterfall”).

sasse (plural sasses)

1. (obsolete) A sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
   • 1662 January 25, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys‎, volume 2, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, page 186:

     Thence with him to the Trinity-house to dinner; where Sir Richard Brown, one of the clerkes of the Council, and who is much concerned against Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse in the King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 sail of ships.

• “sasse”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Essas, SASEs, Sessa, asses, sessa

• IPA^(key): /sas/

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sasse

1. inflection of sasser:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

From Proto-Samic *sësē.

sasse

1. sleeve

• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

sasse

1. locative singular of sassa (“crop”)

From Proto-Samic *sësē.

sasse

1. sleeve

• sasse in Bidumsáme Báhkogirrje (“Pite Sami word list”)
• Koponen, Eino, Ruppel, Klaas, Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002–2008), Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages‎, Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland