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Meanings of sett in English

Russian
брусчатка
Spanish
adoquín
Catalan
llambordí
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Piece of natural stone used for paving roads, sett is distinct from a cobblestone by being quarried and shaped to a regular form, whereas cobblestone naturally have a rounded shape due to erosion.

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брусчатка
Portuguese
paralelepípedo

Rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads.

paralelepípedo
Usage of sett in English
1
I knew that was why she called you into the sett'n room.
The Phantom Herd
2
They repair, each sett of them, to their respective places of meeting.
A Portraiture of Quakerism, Volume 1 / Taken from a View of the ...
3
Every family should possess a sett of one of the editions.
Helen and Arthur; or, Miss Thusa's Spinning Wheel
4
The day the speaker arrived, I sett up on my iPhone just to experiment.
Wired
5
I was moved of ye Lord to sett ye Seede Christ Jesus over his heade!
Spiritual Reformers in the 16th & 17th Centuries
6
Poor James Penrose's pitch was the next sett.
Deep Down, a Tale of the Cornish Mines
7
Dowagers love equipage; and these cannot travel ten miles without a sett, and half a dozen horsemen.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7
8
Police caught Graham Howard, David Charles and Darren Swanson in the act of digging into the sett.
The Irish Times
9
I promised them a sett after tea.
The Keeper of the Door
10
If you put a high seat over a sett you could kill most of them fairly quickly.
The Guardian
11
They have footage, she said, of a badger climbing a fence to get back to its old sett.
The Guardian
12
Was there agreed and sett
The Bay State Monthly, Volume 3, No. 2
13
Till it became laite, and eftir sune-sett, that they were faine to dimitt us to the nixt calling for.'
Andrew Melville
14
The sett for a badger?
The Irish Times
15
A DOG got into deep trouble yesterday when he disappeared into a badger sett close to Áras an Uachtaráin.
The Irish Times
16
An RSPCA inspector, police and ecological experts, examined the badger sett area and found clear evidence of badgers living there.
The Guardian
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Translations for sett
Sett through the time