sentine

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sentine

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Learned borrowing from Latin sentina (“bilge water, hold of a ship, dregs”).

noun sentines

obsolete A place for dregs and dirt; a sink; a sewer. 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; […]

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"sentine." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sentine.

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@misc{sentine_2026,
  title = {sentine},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/sentine},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}