Seter
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Seter is a noun meaning A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
Meaning
A natural terrace in solid rock, formed by waves, that marks the former position of a shoreline.
More Meanings
- A silk scarf or thin pice of cotton cloth used to consecrate a domestic animal to a deity in Mongolia.
- Alternative spelling of saeter.
Example Sentences
Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
So our man [Tulga] made a great show of bringing his black stallion, tied the seter, and let the horse go free.
As I entered her house early on the afternoon before the ritual, Nadmid Udgan was busy making protective amulets (seter, lusyn örgöl) on her manual sewing machine.
In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the seters.
Word Forms
- seters
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include berm, terrace, sandbar, shoar, terracing, terraplene.
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