sett
Americannoun
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Also called pitcher. a small, rectangular paving stone.
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Also called stake. a handheld tool that is struck by a hammer to shape or deform a metal object.
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Also the distinctively colored pattern of crisscrossed lines and stripes against a background in which a Scottish tartan is woven.
noun
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a small rectangular paving block made of stone, such as granite, used to provide a durable road surface Compare cobblestone
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the burrow of a badger
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a square in a pattern of tartan
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the pattern itself
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Etymology
Origin of sett
First recorded in 1870–75; variant of set
Example Sentences
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The mammals had dug a sett under the A52 at Seaholme Road, in the middle of Mablethorpe, according to Lincolnshire County Council.
From BBC • Nov. 3, 2024
"They were blocking one of the entrances to the sett, yet it doesn't look like the badgers have shown any interest in them," she said.
From BBC • May 20, 2022
They have footage, she said, of a badger climbing a fence to get back to its old sett.
From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2017
Our sett was cradled in the interlocking fingers of tree roots: beech on either side, oak from above.
From The New Yorker • May 23, 2016
He went ambling down the corridors of the enchanted sett, rolling from leg to leg with the queer badger paddle, his white mask with its black stripes looking ghostly in the gloom.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
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