sett

Plural: setts

Noun

• The burrow of a badger; a paved area of small stones.
• rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
• The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
• The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
• The number of warp ends per inch in the cloth.
• The number of reeds or splits per inch – one half the number of ends per inch.
• A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
• A mine or set of mines on lease.
• A collection of pumps in a mine.

Verb

• Obsolete spelling of set (particularly as a simple past and past participle).

Examples

• Unearthing ’SETT’ for eight points felt like digging for gold in Words With Friends.

Synonyms

cobble, cobblestone, Belgian block, sley