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sentine

sentine noun: a place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.

Noun

sentine (plural sentines)

  1. (obsolete) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
    • This alonely I can say grossly, and as in a sum, of the which all we (our hurt is the more) have experience, the devil to be a stinking sentine of all vices; a foul filthy channel of all mischiefs; […]1536 June 18 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon II. The Second Sermon in the Afternoon [Made to the Clergy, in the Convocation, before the Parliament Began, the Ninth Day of June, the...

Forms of sentine

pluralsentines

Origin of sentine

Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”).

Questions about sentine

What does sentine mean?
Sentine means a place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
What part of speech is sentine?
Sentine is a noun.
What is the plural of sentine?
The plural of sentine is sentines.

Words near sentine in the dictionary

  1. sentimentally
  2. sentimentless
  3. sentiments
  4. sentimo
  5. sentimos
  6. sentine
  7. sentinel
  8. sentinel crab
  9. sentinel crabs
  10. sentinel event
  11. sentinel events

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