setter

• one who sets written material into type
• a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
• One who, or that which, sets
• 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
• One who hunts victims for sharpers
• One who adapts words to music in composition
• An adornment
• A shallow seggar for porcelain
• To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue

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