Sett

Quick meaning: Sett is a noun meaning The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.

Meaning

The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.

More Meanings

1. The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
2. (weaving) The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
3. (weaving, England) The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.
4. A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
5. (mining) A mine or set of mines on lease.
6. (mining) A collection of pumps in a mine.
7. Obsolete form of set (“group”)

Example Sentences

To achieve a balanced weave, the sett must be a little tighter than it would be for a twill.

The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts, usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall.

Three horses trotted abreast, with the clatter of hoofs on the granite setts, and the yellow, uproarious machine jolted violently behind them, […]

[…] let the dialler, with the same instrument he uses underground, run a north and south line on the surface, in any convenient part of the sett, marking the extremities by well-fixed points, […]

Word Forms

• setts
• set

Synonyms for sett

Depending on context, synonyms include cobblestone, cobble.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cobble, cobblestone, badger, modernists, tunnel, foxhole.

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