sett
IPA: sɪt
noun
- The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
- The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
- (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
- (weaving, England) The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.
- A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
verb
- Obsolete spelling of set (particularly as a simple past and past participle) [(transitive) To put (something) down, to rest.]
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Examples of "sett" in Sentences
- A number of badger setts are present.
- The pattern of a tartan is called a sett.
- This was adjacent to a convenient bridge over the Sett.
- The primary source is the degree of skill and the settting.
- The Chief's sett is a smaller stitch count of the same sett.
- The outcome of this AfD will sett precedence for others like it.
- The many lodes on the sett are all crossed by several elvan dykes.
- The green and black sett was adopted by some clans as their official tartan.
- The sett is made up of a series of woven threads which cross at right angles.
- That would leave the divers as lead image and the top of the RN SETT below it.
- And then, surprisingly, the cage door is opened and the badger runs free and back to the safety of his sett.
- I caught sight of them through binoculars as they were, interestingly, on the edge of the disturbed mound outside a sett.
- The word endding sett is the anglicized pronounciation of the Algonkian word ock or auk, which means a "ground," "place," or "area". '
- John Jackson and some of the other dalesmen who had been "sett" on the way to Gosforth led to an explanation of the disaster that had occurred on the pass.
- [1] He is the first, and though he may not superstitiously feel the situation, yet he certainly has the start of them all, and the more there may be that sett off after him so much the better fun for the composer.
- Revels and merriment after the old English custome; [they] prepared to sett up a Maypole upon the festivall day . . . and therefore brewed a barrell of excellent beare [beer] . . . to be spent, with other good cheare, for all commers of that day . . .
- Many came on foot, and of these by much the larger part meant to accompany the _cortège_ only to the top of the Armboth Fell, and, having "sett" it so far, to face no more of the more than twenty miles of rough country that lay between the valley and the churchyard on the plains by the sea.
- He played a game called sett’ e mezz’ for pennies, sitting on the one-step terrace outside the grocery store, freezing on the stone, and he memorized the cards coming out of the dealer’s hand and won very regular, expecting a picture card and it would come, worth half a point, but she told him not to play anymore.