sennit
IPA: sˈɛnɪt
noun
- braided cord or fabric of such small stuff as plaited rope yarns
- plaited or braided straw or grass which is used for making hats and for a variety of ornamental crafts
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Examples of "sennit" in Sentences
- The runners, crosspieces, and rails are bound together with sennit cordage.
- Sennit is a kind of cordage made by plaiting thinner strands of rope or grass.
- Next, Lamai tied him securely with a sennit cord about the neck and untied the cords that bit into his legs.
- We had also made a quantity of string, or what sailors call sennit, which, twisted together, would serve as cordage for the vessel.
- Even the largest houses have not a nail in them, but are fastened together with sennit, which is a line made from the root of a tree.
- So it was, after low whinings and whimperings, that he applied his sharp first-teeth to the sennit cord and chewed upon it till it parted.
- He was brought in, heavy-featured and defiant, his arms bound with cocoanut sennit, the dry blood still on his body from the struggle with his captors.
- China soup-plate, perforated and strung on coconut sennit, suspended from about his neck so that it rested flat on his chest and half-concealed the generous swell of muscles.
- 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.
- He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw.
- Sixty feet in the clear, the dim fire occasionally lighted, through shadowy cross-beams, the ridge-pole that was covered with sennit of coconut that was braided in barbaric designs of black and white and that was stained by the smoke of years almost to a monochrome of dirty brown.