We had also made a quantity of string, or what sailors call sennit, which, twisted together, would serve as cordage for the vessel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference

A boat — a sealer’s boat, for the rowlocks were bound in sennit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chapter 29] Reference

Teroro untwisted the sennit and nodded judiciously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

At the canoe they fastened the sennit just a bit more strongly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

We would need a thousand fishhooks and two thousand lengths of sennit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

Fish-lines of sennit, fishhooks of pearl, nets and spears for sharks, all were in order.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

Nor is production of sewed straw hats confined to those made of sennit braids; hats are made of other braids as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926)] Reference

Then he lashed each with sennit shrouds, so that by nightfall a man could climb to the top of either and not tear it loose.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

To supply the place of sennit, we manufactured a quantity of cord from twisted hibiscus bark, which answered the purpose very well.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

The feather-figured statue of Oro himself, woven of sennit and with sea shells as eyes, was about to be placed inside the temple for its journey to Havaiki.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

A man could sit in a room tied with sennit and revel in its intricate patterns the way a navigator studies stars at night or a child tirelessly watches waves on sand.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hawaii]

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926)] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island Home] Reference

It had a door formed of thin poles lashed together with sennit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Trawl The Adventures of a Whaler] Reference

Ben's hook, swallowing bait, hook, and several inches of the sennit-cord, at a single gulp!.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference

About his neck, from a cord of twisted coconut sennit, hung an ivory-white necklace of wild-boar's tusks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

"Now," continued he, laying hold of the coil of sennit, and tossing back one end over an empty water-cask.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference

Next, Lamai tied him securely with a sennit cord about the neck and untied the cords that bit into his legs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

Quick, Will'm, shy me that piece o 'sennit: we must secure him 'fore he gives clean up and goes to the bottom.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference

It was the real thing, grass-thatched, hand-hewn beams that were lashed with cocoanut sennit, and all the rest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

Joe noticed that the oars were muffled with sennit, and that even the rowlock sockets were protected by leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the "Dazzler"] Reference

Joe noticed that the oars were muffled with sennit, and that even the rowlock sockets were protected with leather.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Cruise of the Dazzler] Reference

I may say that everything is fastened with sennit -- canoes, as well as houses -- so that large quantities are used.    From Wordnik.com.  [Taking Tales Instructive and Entertaining Reading] Reference

From the lofty cross-beams, on long sennit strings, hung the heads of enemies taken aforetime in jungle raid and sea foray.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference

These were tied to the rocks, and the ropes of cocoanut sennit in the course of hundreds of years had worn the stones away.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic Isles of the South Seas.] Reference

After we had made a quantity of sennit, Peter cut out some netting needles and pins, and set to work to net a hammock for himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Wanderers Adventures in the Wilds of Trinidad and Orinoco] Reference

In his fancy, at the time, he remembered likening her strength to ivory, to carven pearl shell, to sennit twisted of maidens 'hair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Little Lady of the Big House] Reference

While the sailor was giving these directions, he was busy with both hands in forming a running-noose on one end of the sennit-cord, which.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jerry of the Islands] Reference