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Linnet vs Sinnet - What's the difference?

linnet | sinnet |

As a proper noun linnet

is derived from the linnet bird occasionally recorded since the 19th century.

As a noun sinnet is

(nautical) a braided cord.

linnet

English

(wikipedia linnet)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A small passerine bird, in the finch family Fringillidae, native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa.
  • A house finch.

    • sinnet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (nautical) a braided cord
  • :* 2004': Last night, the men were gathered on the foredeck laying up grass into '''sinnet for ropes by lantern-light & the prohibition on ‘supernuminaries’ on the foredeck seemed not to apply. — David Mitchell, ''Cloud Atlas

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