Setts

Word SETTS
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Definitions and meanings of "Setts"

What do we mean by setts?

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.

A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.

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The word "setts" in example sentences

He makes us see and hear with him the tens of thousands of stone cutters and the ring of their tools squaring the "setts"; and then one platoon after another stepping forward and laying down its row of stones followed by rank after rank of men with the paviours 'rammers, which rise and fall at the sweep of the band-master's rods, keeping time in a stately music as they advance; the continuous falling and crashing of the trees as other thousands of hands ply the axes along the lines, that creep, slowly, but visibly, on through the ❋ George Frisbie Hoar (1865)

So I climbed up through the birch and rowan woodland above the house and on to the main badger setts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Poor areas were cobbled; upmarket areas were covered in granite setts what many localities call cobbles. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Twenty sturdy wire cage traps are placed close to setts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

No birds were calling, let alone singing, as I sat on a fallen tree overlooking the setts. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Ancient hedgerows provide perfect cover for labyrinthine setts, while earthworm-rich meadows are perfect hunting grounds. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The small group then began to clamber up the stepsnearly 500 of them, the lower few rows of massive foot-high granite setts muddy and slimy with the daily rise and fall of the river; the upper ones hot and dusty, and alive with hawkers and beggars and confidence men eager to trick any newcomers panting up from the riverside. next » ❋ Unknown (2008)

Rosemary says they thrive here because the bracken is always being beaten down by the many badgers that emerge after dark from two different setts in the wood. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Badger setts were harder to find but when snow fell it was easier to follow their spoor home, a dugout usually hidden under an old tree root in a clay bank. ❋ Richard Madeley (2008)

Someone told me that you should make sure that your garlic setts were drown locally - that the won't go unless they find the area familiar. ❋ Spinningfishwife (2007)

England the ome of the brave, the refuge of the world, where the pore slave never setts his foot but he is free! ❋ Unknown (2006)

Managers at Category C Erlestoke Prison in Wiltshire had been powerless to get rid of them because badger setts are protected by law. ❋ Unknown (2005)

She tapped her umbrella on the setts, calling haughtily for way, and way miraculously appeared. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

But by degrees that could be measured in the granite setts, her face hardened and her mockery slowed, till all of a heap was revealed in their midst—Mother Erin. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

Crossing to Kingstown it was a surprise after the broken paving to hear his shoes clip on the Aberdeen setts. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

The fender grated on the setts, the trolley hissed above. ❋ Jamie O’Neill (2002)

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