At the canoe they fastened the sennit just a bit more strongly.

He looked at the ground, recovered the sennit he had been twisting, and placed it in his belt.

We would need a thousand fishhooks and two thousand lengths of sennit.

Prior to the introduction of steel strings, gut or sennit (coconut fibre) were used.

They showed me the sennit noose they had used - five years old and as good as new.

The runners, crosspieces, and rails are bound together with sennit cordage.

Earlier generations used sennit grass or pulled the fiber from the shells of coconuts and wove them into rope.

The old papas plaited sennit, the Taunga joined the sideboard hull.

Then he lashed each with sennit shrouds, so that by nightfall a man could climb to the top of either and not tear it loose.

Nearly two miles of it had been used in construction; wherever one piece of timber touched another, pliant golden sennit held the parts together.

Fish-lines of sennit, fishhooks of pearl, nets and spears for sharks, all were in order.

I have not above fifty fathoms of duck aboard,' he said, 'and not a scrap of sennit.

Next, Lamai tied him securely with a sennit cord about the neck and untied the cords that bit into his legs.

The sennit is then coiled in bundles or wound tightly in very neat cylindrical rolls.

The priest hurried to the canoe, which rested under the surveillance of the dead crewman lashed to the stern, and studied the broken sennit.

In the traditionally-inspired section, she presented a puletasi or two-piece outfit, made of tapa with sennit braiding.

These long, thin strands are then woven together into a three-ply plait, often in long lengths, that is the finished sennit.

Combs collected were made from the midribs of coconut leaflets, intertwined with fine sennit cord to make decorative patterns.

This is pierced by a hole through which a piece of afa (native sennit) is threaded for suspending the bowl from a house post.

About his neck, from a cord of twisted coconut sennit, hung an ivory-white necklace of wild-boar's tusks.

From the lofty cross-beams, on long sennit strings, hung the heads of enemies taken aforetime in jungle raid and sea foray.

A competing elephant from the Goliath, almost hidden by a mass of delighted seamen in shore-going rig, white sennit hats and ribbons.

A chain sinnet (or chain sennit) is a method of shortening a rope or other cable while in use or for storage.

HAWAII Teroro untwisted the sennit and nodded judiciously.

The buildings were constructed without nails and were lashed and tied together with a plaited sennit rope that was handmade from dried coconut fibre.