sennit

He was brought in, heavy-featured and defiant, his arms bound with cocoanut sennit, the dry blood still on his body from the struggle with his captors.

Jerry had seen his mother so mishandled, and, ere he had learned discretion, alone in the high grass had been himself club-mauled by Godarmy, the black who wore a china door-knob suspended on his chest from his neck on a string of sennit braided from cocoanut fibre.

The hunters have experimented and practised with their rifles and shotguns till they are satisfied, and the boat-pullers and steerers have made their spritsails, bound the oars and rowlocks in leather and sennit so that they will make no noise when creeping on the seals, and put their boats in apple-pie order--to use Leach's homely phrase.

In the various smaller holes he carried such things as empty rifle cartridges, horseshoe nails, copper screws, pieces of string, braids of sennit, strips of green leaf, and, in the cool of the day, scarlet hibiscus flowers.

The very act of drawing the project, and to an extent conceiving it, is intimately entwined with lalava, the traditional craft of sennit bindings that is both structural and symbolic.

Some of these names are: Eomelan (land reserved for chiefs), Lomwilik (place where the frigate bird sleeps), Lopiti (place for making sennit), Lqwuleej (cemetery), Paaneraj (give bait to whales), Toon-lounlep (passage of great magical power), wajelke (canoe we depend on) (see Abo et al.

Rice, who received the longer sentence, knifed Mr Sennit after he tried to intervene when Piper began the sexual assault.