sennet

noun

1. a signal call given on a cornet or trumpet for entrance or exit on a theatrical stage
2. The barracuda.
3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of sennit.

   “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.”

4. (alt-of, alternative, obsolete)Alternative form of sennight, a sevennight, a week.

   “I dranke not this sennet A draught to my pay; Elynour, I thé pray, Of thyne ale let vs assay, […]”