sasse
/sæs/
sasse noun: a sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
Noun
sasse (plural sasses)
- A sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
- Thence with him to the Trinity-house to dinner; where Sir Richard Brown, one of the clerkes of the Council, and who is much concerned against Sir N. Crisp's project of making a great sasse in the King's lands about Deptford, to be a wett-dock to hold 200 sail of ships.1662 January 25, Samuel Pepys, Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, volume 2, Dodd, Mead & Company, published 1885, page 186
Proper noun capitalized: Sasse
Sasse (plural Sasses)
- A surname.
Forms of sasse
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | sasses |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Sasses |
Origin of sasse
Dutch sas, from French sas (“the basin of a waterfall”).
* As a Dutch and North/Low German surname, from Middle Low German sasse (“Saxon”) (modern Sasse), from Old Saxon Sahso, from Proto-West Germanic *Sahsō. * As a French surname, from the ancient Germanic name Sahso, shortened pet form of compound names containing the element sahs (“Saxon”), itself from the root of the above.
Questions about sasse
- What does sasse mean?
- Sasse means a sluice or lock, as in a river or canal, to make it more navigable.
- What part of speech is sasse?
- Sasse can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce sasse?
- Sasse is pronounced /sæs/.
- What is the plural of sasse?
- The plural of sasse is sasses.
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