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.

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