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单词 sinnet
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sinnetn.

/ˈsɪnɛt/
Forms: Also 1600s sinnett, sinnit, 1700s–1800s sinnate, 1800s cinnet. Cf. sennit n.
Etymology: A nautical term of obscure origin.
A kind of flat braided cordage formed by pleating together several strands of rope-yarn, coarse hemp, grass, or other fibrous material.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > other manufactured or derived materials > [noun] > rope or cord > types of
sandwich1494
parchment lace1542
hempstring1573
sinnet1611
jackline1612
spun-yarn1627
sennit1769
Manila1826
four-inch1840
stropping1850
society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > ropes or chains other than rigging or cable > [noun] > rope collective or as material > specific types of rope
ratline1358
marline1417
sinnet1611
caburn1626
knittle1627
housing1642
lashing1669
houseline1712
fox1769
sennit1769
hamber-line1793
seizing1804
grass line1828
stropping1850
lanyard1862
small stuff1867
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Trene, a threefold rope, cord, string, or twist, called by Marriners, a Sinnet.
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. v. 25 Sinnet is a string made of rope yarne commonly of two, foure, six, eight or nine strings platted in three parts, which being beat flat they vse it to sarue ropes or Mats.
1708 E. Ward Wooden World Dissected (ed. 2) 28 If he have but Hands enough to Furl, Rief, and make Sinnate.
1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxvi. 288 The boys..laid up grass into sinnet, for the men.
1847 H. Melville Omoo lxxiv A roll of grass sinnate (of the kind which sailors sew into the frame of their tarpaulins).
1880 J. S. Cooper Coral Lands I. x. 105 They stand about six feet high, the gables being filled in with sinnet.
1884 G. Turner Samoa 165 Everything is fastened in their ancient style, with cinnet plaited from the fibre of the cocoa-nut husk. Cinnet is likely long to prevail in native canoe and boat-building.
attrib. and Comb.1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. x. 101 Our sinnet-laid twine would not stand the powerful struggles of the beast.1894 B. Thomson S. Sea Yarns x A man may make many signs by jerking a sinnet cord which another holds.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018).
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