When the animals had drunk, he filled the water bag with the settlings.

Then let the liquor run through a bolter, to sever the spice, stopping before any settlings come.

Thrown down; settlings; coming from above.

Actual "settlings" were the dregs of humanity.

But for the slight concavities on the hilltop that marked shuttler settlings, there was little to indicate their previous presence.

"Perhaps, darling Lucia," she said, "it would be well to ask my Guru if he has anything to say to your settlings.