Sinnet vs Signet - What's the difference?
sinnet | signet |
(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
an object (especially a ring) formerly used to impress a picture into the sealing wax of a document as a proof of its origin
* c.1600:' William Shakespeare, ''Hamlet'' - I had my father's ' signet in my purse, / Which was the model of that Danish seal;