The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sinnet \Sin"net\, n. See Sennit.
Wiktionary
n. (context nautical English) a braided cord
Usage examples of "sinnet".
Lorna Sinnet is not a woman to give her love and take a half-love in return.
Lorna Sinnet, for all his admiration of her, had established no claim upon his confidence, yet now, with this young girl, whom he had known but a few weeks, a new need developed--a need to talk of himself!
Lorna Sinnet has good friends there and they will take her into their circle.
His face was burnt to a fine mahogany colour by the sun, and, dangling over his chest at the end of a piece of fine sinnet, was a gold-rimmed eye-glass which glittered like a diamond when it caught the sun.
All that watch, the Second Mate kept me working at my paunch mat, and Tammy he put on to his sinnet, telling me to keep an eye on the youngster.