Meaning
Senseh — the frizzle-feathered fowl, whose feathers curl outward giving a ragged, ruffled look. Beyond a curiosity of the yard, the senseh fowl carries folk belief as a duppy-catcher: kept to scratch up and expose obeah or 'set' things buried in the yard, protecting the household.
Examples
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Di senseh fowl a scratch up di yaad.
The senseh fowl is scratching up the yard.
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Dem keep a senseh fowl fi ketch duppy business.
They keep a senseh fowl to catch any obeah.
Origin
The frizzle-feathered fowl; kept as a duppy/obeah catcher. See [[fowl]], [[duppy]], [[obeah]].
How it’s used
Frizzle-feathered fowl; folk protector that scratches up buried obeah.