sentine

S1E1N1T1I1N1E1

noun

A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

OriginLatin sentina →
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Meanings

nounsentine (plural sentines)

plural sentines

  1. obsoleteA place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

    This alonely I can say grossly, and as in a sum, of the which all we (our hurt is the more) have experience, the devil to be a stinking sentine of all vices; a foul filthy channel of all mischiefs; […]

    1536 June 18 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. The Second Sermon in the Afternoon [Made to the Clergy, in the Convocation, before the Parliament Began, the Ninth Day of June, the Twenty-eighth Year of the Reign of our Sovereign Lord King Henry VIII].”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God, and Constant Martyr of Jesus Christ, Hugh Latimer, Some Time Bishop of Worcester, […], volume I, London: […] James Duncan, […], published 1824, →OCLC, page 40

Origin

  1. Latinsentina
  2. Latinsentina
  3. Englishsentine

Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”).

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Rhymes & wordplay

Anagrams

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Chicago

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