sennet

• IPA^(key): /ˈsɛnɪt/

Probably an alteration of the obsolete signet (“signal”)

sennet (plural sennets)

1. a signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage
2. The barracuda.

• “sennet” in Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary: Based on Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, 7th edition, Springfield, Mass.: G[eorge] & C[harles] Merriam, 1963 (1967 printing), →OCLC.

sennet (plural sennets)

1. Alternative spelling of sennit.
   • 1923, Charles Boardman Hawes, The Dark Frigate, Chapter 8:

     Boatswain Marsham fell to work overhauling the bolts of sail-cloth and the hanks of cordage and the coils of rope, till he had found a new foresail and laid it under the hatch, and had placed great ropes and such cordage as headlines and marlines and sennets so that a man could lay hands on them in a time of haste and confusion.

• sennet whip

• “Sennet (senet, sonnet, sennit, sennate, sinet, synnet, cynet)”, in Oxford Music Online‎^[1], 30 April 2019 (last accessed)

• Nenets, Tennes, ennets, tensen