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sentines

sentines is the plural of sentine.

Meaning of sentine

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...

Questions about sentines

What is sentines the plural of?
Sentines is the plural of sentine.

Words near sentines in the dictionary

  1. sentinelled
  2. sentinelling
  3. sentinels
  4. sentinelship
  5. sentinelwise
  6. sentines
  7. sentiocentric
  8. sentiocentrism
  9. sentiocentrist
  10. sentiocentrists
  11. sention

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