Sennit

He fondled the impression of her as of silverspun wire, of fine leather, of twisted hair-sennit from the heads of maidens such as the Marquesans make, of carven pearl-shell for the lure of the bonita, and of barbed ivory at the heads of sea-spears such as the Eskimos throw. ❋ Unknown (2010)

High up on the beach of the second cove from ours, we discovered the splintered wreck of a boat -- a sealer's boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit, a gun-rack was on the starboard side of the bow, and in white letters was faintly visible Gazelle No. 2. ❋ Unknown (1904)

We had also made a quantity of string, or what sailors call sennit, which, twisted together, would serve as cordage for the vessel. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Even the largest houses have not a nail in them, but are fastened together with sennit, which is a line made from the root of a tree. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Jerry had seen his mother so mishandled, and, ere he had learned discretion, alone in the high grass had been himself club-mauled by Godarmy, the black who wore a china door-knob suspended on his chest from his neck on a string of sennit braided from cocoanut fibre. ❋ Unknown (2010)

He was brought in, heavy-featured and defiant, his arms bound with cocoanut sennit, the dry blood still on his body from the struggle with his captors. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Sixty feet in the clear, the dim fire occasionally lighted, through shadowy cross-beams, the ridge-pole that was covered with sennit of coconut that was braided in barbaric designs of black and white and that was stained by the smoke of years almost to a monochrome of dirty brown. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Uiliami blew the whistle suspended on his broad bare chest by a cord of cocoanut sennit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

From the lofty cross-beams, on long sennit strings, hung the heads of enemies taken aforetime in jungle raid and sea foray. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Next, Lamai tied him securely with a sennit cord about the neck and untied the cords that bit into his legs. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It was the real thing, grass-thatched, hand-hewn beams that were lashed with cocoanut sennit, and all the rest. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Aora, who might be described as his prime minister and treasurer, had received the tithes as fast as they were paid over, and filled them into large, fine-netted bags of coconut sennit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

China soup-plate, perforated and strung on coconut sennit, suspended from about his neck so that it rested flat on his chest and half-concealed the generous swell of muscles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And there was little else to learn during that seven-months 'cruise, except fancy rope-sailorising, such as the more complicated lanyard knots and the making of various kinds of sennit and rope-mats. ❋ Unknown (2010)

So it was, after low whinings and whimperings, that he applied his sharp first-teeth to the sennit cord and chewed upon it till it parted. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the various smaller holes he carried such things as empty rifle cartridges, horseshoe nails, copper screws, pieces of string, braids of sennit, strips of green leaf, and, in the cool of the day, scarlet hibiscus flowers. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mauki is 110-pound plum-black native with ears pierced for such items as a clay pipe, wooden plugs, rifle cartridges, horseshoe nails, braids of sennit, and the like. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Then, when we had obtained a sufficiency for the coming night, he set us all to work again upon the sennit, and so until dinner, after which we turned-to once more upon our plaiting. ❋ Unknown (2007)

And when we had it back again upon the hilltop, Jessop moored it very securely to a great piece of rock, and, after that, having received our approbation, he turned-to with us upon the making of the sennit. ❋ Unknown (2007)