Meanings of set a-going in English

New tracts of land will be cleared, new and improved machines set a-going.

The accounts that I intend to set a-going would frighten any one less audacious.

The stiff old curee, too, had an air of having been wound up and set a-going.

As it was, I went back to set a-going a younger pair of legs than mine.

Wine was set a-going, and cards were proposed.

Ask him which of them he set a-going, and which way he begun to move them?

It was set a-going, not by wheels and weights like other clocks, but by the dropping of water.

As for Joe Morgan, it would take a saint to bear his tongue when once set a-going by liquor.

All these were now set a-going, and their terrible din roused those of the neighborhood who had not before assembled around the house.

These sold, the avails were invested in barrows, spades, water-wheels, wages, &c., and in good time the canal was cut and the manufactory set a-going.

A spring saved the Captain, but the huge stone, once set a- going, continued its way down the hill.

"Already they have had that calumny about me set a-going here, Sampson,-aboutme and the poor little French dancing-girl.