Sennet
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 a signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage
- 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 The barracuda.
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
Probably an alteration of the obsolete signet (“signal”)
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