Meanings
sasse1
plural sasses
- obsoleteA sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
Thence with him to the Trinity-house to dinner; where Sir Richard Brown, one of the clerkes of the Council, and who is much concerned against Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse in the King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 sail of ships.
1662 January 25, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 2, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, page 186
Sasse2
Origin
sasse · noun
- Frenchsas“the basin of a waterfall”
- Dutchsas
- Englishsasse
Dutch sas, from French sas (“the basin of a waterfall”).
Full word history & related roots →Sasse · proper noun
- Proto-West Germanic*Sahsō
- Old SaxonSahso
- Middle Low Germansasse“Saxon”
- EnglishSasse
* As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sasse (“Saxon”) (modern Sasse), from Old Saxon Sahso, from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō. * As a French surname, from the ancient Germanic name Sahso, shortened pet form of compound names containing the element sahs (“Saxon”), itself from the root of the above.
More words from Middle Low German, Old Saxon, Proto-West Germanic
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