set-in
[set-in]
- made separately and placed within another unit.
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Origin of set-in
First recorded in 1525–35; adj. use of verb phrase set in
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In general the strongest flood does not set-in till Midsummer.
Lachesis LapponicaCarl von Linn
"It's a set-in rain, and we're goin' to have a hard time," Hubert complained.
Captain TedLouis Pendleton
Fine weather may, perhaps, have set-in in the interval in all parts of the mountains.
Western Himalaya and TibetThomas Thomson
Those wide seams in the whitewashed ceiling must mean the cracks due to a set-in door.
The Girl in the MirrorElizabeth Garver Jordan