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nounsinnate (countable and uncountable, plural sinnates)
plural sinnates
- alternativecountableuncountableAlternative form of sennit.
It was just after this meal, that she brought me a roll of grass sinnate (of the kind which sailors sew into the frame of their tarpaulins), and then, handing me needle and thread, bade me begin at once, and make myself the hat which I so much needed.
1847 March 30, Herman Melville, chapter LXXIV, in Omoo: A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas; […], London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, pages 286-287
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