sennet

See also: ṣenneṭ

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnɪt/

Etymology 1

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

Noun

sennet (plural sennets)

1. a signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage
2. The barracuda.

Derived terms

• southern sennet

References

• “sennet” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

Etymology 2

Noun

sennet (plural sennets)

1. Alternative spelling of sennit.
   • 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8:

     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.

Derived terms

• sennet whip

Etymology 3

Noun

sennet (plural sennets)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of sennight, a sevennight, a week.
   • c. 1517 (date written; published c. 1545), John Skelton, “Here after Foloweth the Booke Called Elynour Rummynge. The Tunnyng of Elynour Rummyng per Skelton Laureat.”, in Alexander Dyce, editor, The Poetical Works of John Skelton: […], volume I, London: Thomas Rodd, […], published 1843, →OCLC, pages 107–108, lines 394–397:

     I dranke not this sennet
     A draught to my pay;
     Elynour, I thé pray,
     Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]

Further reading

• “Sennet (senet, sonnet, sennit, sennate, sinet, synnet, cynet)”, in Oxford Music Online‎^[1], 30 April 2019 (last accessed)

Anagrams

• Nenets, Tennes, ennets, tensen