单词 | sinnet |
释义 | sinnetn. A kind of flat braided cordage formed by pleating together several strands of rope-yarn, coarse hemp, grass, or other fibrous material. ΘΚΠ 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1611 |
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