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Sennet

//ˈsɛnɪt// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    a signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage
  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of sennit. alt-of, alternative

    "Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion."

  3. 3
    The barracuda.

Etymology

Probably an alteration of the obsolete signet (“signal”)

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