sentine

English

Etymology

Latin sentina (bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs): compare French sentine.

Noun

sentine (plural sentines)

  1. (obsolete) A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer.
    • 1536 June 9, Hugh Latimer, Second sermon preached before the convocation of the clergy:
      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

References

sentine in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Italian

Noun

sentine f

  1. plural of sentina

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