Crossword clues for sennit
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sennit \Sen"nit\, n. [Seven + knit.]
(Naut.) A braided cord or fabric formed by plaiting together rope yarns or other small stuff.
Plaited straw or palm leaves for making hats.
Wiktionary
n. 1 braided cord or fabric of such small stuff as plaited rope yarns 2 straw or grass which is braid for a hat
WordNet
n. flat braided cordage that is used on ships
Wikipedia
Sennit is a type of cordage made by plaiting strands of dried fibre or grass. It can be used ornamentally in crafts, like a kind of macrame, or to make straw hats. Sennit is an important material in the cultures of Oceania, where it is used in traditional architecture, boat building, fishing and as an ornamentation.
Usage examples of "sennit".
Uncle was so busy twisting coconut husk fibers into sennit cord that he paid me no attention.
Everywhere I went, people were lashing poles together with sennit to make house-frames, wrapping wicker god-images, making fishnets, and a hundred other tasks.
Vao had a short roll of sennit in her hand and she dangled the end in front of me.
Mahui told me that the sennit the shipwrights used had been specially consecrated.
The sennit from the canoes and the sennit from the storehouse writhed together in one monstrous, irretrievably snarled up monument to the infinite feline capacity for disorder.
The priests appealed to her to stop the wild antics of the sennit, which she did, of course, since I obeyed her request.
Once I made the sennit quiet down, Rori waded into the mess to try and extricate me.
The boat-builders tried to salvage their sennit, but it was in such a hopeless snarl that they could only burn it.
They were in shore-going rig - wide-brimmed white sennit hats, Watchetblue jackets with brass buttons, black silk neckerchiefs, white duck trousers and very small shoes - but with no ribbons in the seams or coloured streamers: a sober finery.
A competing elephant from the Goliath, almost hidden by a mass of delighted seamen in shore-going rig, white sennit hats and ribbons.
Italian straw hats exported to the United States are not made in Italy but are of Japanese origin, as are also the sennit braids used in the sewed straw hats made in the United States and in England.
Imported hats have a wide range of styles and prices, including not only sewed hats of sennit braid but also those of fancy braids, and woven body hats such as leghorns.
We would need a thousand fishhooks and two thousand lengths of sennit.
Fish-lines of sennit, fishhooks of pearl, nets and spears for sharks, all were in order.
On the canoe, that daring and insignificant bundle of wood lashed together by sennit and men's wills, all hearts were deep in peace, and the onwardness of their journey sang contentedly in all parts of the craft, so that when old Tupuna crawled back to his watching point abaft the gods' house, he called softly to Teroro ahead, "The king is content.