Set Down

This is something that's known in meteorological science as wind set-down. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Perhaps a (financially) safer place to pick up is the secondary Qantas set-down area on the inner loop of the airport road. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The opposite component of wind set-down is called storm surge, which is very familiar in the United States recently. ❋ Unknown (2010)

And in 1882, a British General named Tulloch observed a wind set-down event happen there. ❋ Unknown (2010)

But she didn't tender him the set-down that his stupid demand deserved. ❋ Michael J. Solender (2010)

Alas, he hadn't been able to pursue his military studies at any length, since his time had been taken up with selling wool in London, where he'd won a bronze medal for his wares - and here he pulled it from his pocket, chuckling that it had been some set-down for the smart Londoners, a poor rustic Yankee winning their prize. ❋ Unknown (2010)

When he saw how fast the XV-15 could fly, Lehman thought the tiltrotor “offered the prospect of a 300-knot entry into the battle area and a rapid set-down and a rapid departure.” ❋ Richard Whittle (2010)

She was a cocky bitch, with a fine sense of her queenly consequence, but I wasn't fooled by her airs, or the set-down she'd tried to give me by warning me not to try to come round her with whiskery blandishments. ❋ Unknown (2010)

In the Toronto district, these Courts are a cattle-call of all set-down actions, to schedule a final pre-trial conference and set trial dates. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Perhaps a financially safer place to pick up is the secondary Qantas set-down area on the inner loop of the airport road. ❋ Unknown (2009)

They returned late Sunday evening, in a commotion of kicked-off shoes and set-down carryalls and switched-on lights. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The woman on the left (who looks a bit like Téa Leoni, I think) is obviously being confronted with some entitled upstart (look at that nose in the air!) and is on the point of delivering a well-deserved set-down. ❋ Unknown (2007)

So rather than wait for a delayed date of set-down, he sent Miss Mahomed to Paris to try and obtain a copy and, in the event, also to deliver a letter to ❋ Unknown (2005)

Update: Arthur has a stinging set-down of the Powerline boys here. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Denoriel was not teasing her this time; she had gotten some appalling manners, and it was time someone delivered a set-down to her. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (2005)