单词 | sennit |
例句 | Slowly we edged our way across the belt of calms to the northward of the Line, inch by inch, our efforts almost entirely confined to working the ship and making sennit. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Their mode of using it was by attaching a cord of palm sennit to a ring already fastened round the tail, at the smallest part between the ventral and caudal fins. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Frap the first and riding turns together on each side with sennit. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. It was built like the houses, without a single nail, but all the planks were sewed together with sennit. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading Some were swinging on ropes of sennit, suspended from the branches of the trees, and a few were quietly sitting in the shade, making bouquets and wreaths of wild-flowers. The Island Home As far as possible work was confined to the fore part of the ship, and beside the ordinary routine little was done but the plaiting of rope yarns into sennit—always a kill-time. The Log of a Sea-Waif Being Recollections of the First Four Years of My Sea Life 2011-07-09T02:00:13.057Z Quick, Will’m, shy me that piece o’ sennit: we must secure him ’fore he gives clean up and goes to the bottom. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Uiliami blew the whistle suspended on his broad bare chest by a cord of cocoanut sennit. A Son Of The Sun 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. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading To supply the place of sennit, we manufactured a quantity of cord from twisted hibiscus bark, which answered the purpose very well. The Island Home We had also made a quantity of string, or what sailors call sennit, which, twisted together, would serve as cordage for the vessel. The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco Snowball, releasing his arm from the sennit loop, swam up to the floating cask; and, after some dodging about, succeeded in getting astride of it. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea It had a door formed of thin poles lashed together with sennit. Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler I may say that everything is fastened with sennit—canoes, as well as houses—so that large quantities are used. Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading They were all bound fast, their hands being tied behind them, in addition to which, each was fastened to the tree by a rope of sennit. The Island Home After being thus disintegrated, the tow was spun into sennit or fine twine and yarn which is always of use on board, quantities of it being used in “serving” and “parcelling” for chafing gear. Afloat at Last A Sailor Boy's Log of his Life at Sea On the right of the chest was the sailor, his body stretched transversely along its end, with his left arm buried to the elbow in the sennit loop forming its handle. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Nor is production of sewed straw hats confined to those made of sennit braids; hats are made of other braids as well. Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) Here," he said, "You want to know square sennit? Old and New Masters Joe noticed that the oars were muffled with sennit, and that even the rowlock sockets were protected with leather. The Cruise of the Dazzler "That," exclaimed the lad, with the eagerness of one who would vindicate his reputation, "is rattlin-stuff; and this is marline; and that is sennit." The Pilot The next thing done was to secure the other end of the sennit to the upright oar; and the carcass of the shark was thus kept afloat near the surface of the water. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea Imported hats have a wide range of styles and prices, including not only sewed hats of sennit braid but also those of fancy braids, and woven body hats such as leghorns. Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) These, when they had come at them, we found to be very good and sound, and this being so, I bid them make three-yarn sennit; meaning it for the strings of the bows. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" It was the real thing, grass-thatched, hand-hewn beams that were lashed with cocoanut sennit, and all the rest. The Little Lady of the Big House Charmian was attracted by a fancy braid of straw sennit, thirty feet of it in a roll, sufficient to make a hat of any design one wished; the roll of sennit was hers. The Cruise of the Snark “Now,” continued he, laying hold of the coil of sennit, and tossing back one end over an empty water-cask. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea 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. Adventure Presently, when I had made an end of this, I called for a length of the sennit, and, with the aid of another man, contrived to string one of the bows. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" In his fancy, at the time, he remembered likening her strength to ivory, to carven pearl shell, to sennit twisted of maidens' hair. The Little Lady of the Big House His sole decoration was a white 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. Jerry of the Islands 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. Jerry of the Islands Next, Lamai tied him securely with a sennit cord about the neck and untied the cords that bit into his legs. Jerry of the Islands 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. The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" From the lofty cross-beams, on long sennit strings, hung the heads of enemies taken aforetime in jungle raid and sea foray. Jerry of the Islands |
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