sinnet
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsɪnɪt/
- Rhymes: -ɪnɪt
Noun
sinnet (countable and uncountable, plural sinnets)
- Alternative form of sennit
- 2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- Last night, the men were gathered on the foredeck laying up grass into sinnet for ropes by lantern-light & the prohibition on ‘supernuminaries’ on the foredeck seemed not to apply.
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