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Webster 1913 Edition
Setter
Set′ter
,Noun.
1.
One who, or that which, sets; – used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.
2.
(Zool.)
A hunting dog of a special breed originally derived from a cross between the spaniel and the pointer. Modern setters are usually trained to indicate the position of game birds by standing in a fixed position, but originally they indicated it by sitting or crouching.
☞ There are several distinct varieties of setters; as, the Irish, or red, setter; the Gordon setter, which is usually red or tan varied with black; and the English setter, which is variously colored, but usually white and tawny red, with or without black.
3.
One who hunts victims for sharpers.
Shak.
4.
One who adapts words to music in composition.
5.
An adornment; a decoration; – with off.
[Obs.]
They come as . . .
setters
off of thy graces. Whitlock.
6.
(Pottery)
A shallow seggar for porcelain.
Ure.
Set′ter
,Verb.
T.
To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
[Prov. Eng.]
Webster 1828 Edition
Setter
SET'TER
, n. 1. One that sets; as a setter on, or inciter; a setter up; a setter forth, &c.
2. A dogs that beats the field and starts birds for sportsmen.
3. A man that performs the office of a setting dogor finds persons to be plundered.
4. One that adapts words to music in composition.
5. Whatever sets off, adorns or recommendws. [Not used.]
Definition 2024
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English
Noun
setter (plural setters)
- One who sets something, especially a typesetter
- The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
- Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.
- A long-haired breed of gundog (Wikipedia).
- She has a spaniel and a red setter.
- 1931, Francis Beeding, chapter 7/2, in The Norwich Victims:
- The two Gordon setters came obediently to heel. Sir Oswald Feiling winced as he turned to go home. He had felt a warning twinge of lumbago.
- (volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.
- (object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.
- (sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets
- 2012 June 29, Kevin Mitchell, “Roger Federer back from Wimbledon 2012 brink to beat Julien Benneteau”, in the Guardian:
- It was desperately close until all but the closing moments, and for that we had the 32nd-ranked Benneteau to thank for bringing the fight out in Federer, whose thirst for these long battles has waned over the past couple of years. For a player regarded by many as the greatest of all time his record in completed five-setters is ordinary: now 20 wins, 16 losses.
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- One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- One who adapts words to music in composition.
- A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Ure to this entry?)
Derived terms
Derived terms
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Translations
one who sets something
breed of dog
volleyball player
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Synonyms
- (computing): mutator
See also
References
- OED2
Etymology 2
Verb
setter (third-person singular simple present setters, present participle settering, simple past and past participle settered)
- (Britain, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.