sett

«sett» in Mova's school dictionary: the home of a badger: a set of underground tunnels and… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (a sett, setts); also spelt set

meaning for a pupil

1) A sett is the home of a badger: a set of underground tunnels and rooms dug into the earth. tree →

2) A sett is also a rectangular stone block used to pave old streets (often wrongly called cobbles). tree →

sense in the lessons

In nature lessons in the UK and Ireland, badger setts are found in woods and hedges, with several entrances and big piles of dug earth; badgers and their setts are protected by law, so you must not disturb them. In old towns, roads made of setts are bumpy to ride a bike on.

examples

• Badgers live in an underground sett. tree →
• We saw a badger come out of its sett at dusk. tree →
• The sett had five holes and big piles of earth. tree →
• It is against the law to damage a badger sett. tree →
• The old high street is paved with granite setts. tree →
• Bikes rattle over the stone setts. tree →
• Some setts are used by badgers for hundreds of years. tree →

note

Spelt with double t to tell it apart from "set". It sounds the same as "set". Countable: setts. A fox's home is an earth or den; a rabbit's is a burrow or warren.

In the corpora

• The Badger is closer to life: real badgers dig huge old homes called setts and stay underground through cold spells.
• Badgers are very clean: they drag in fresh grass and bracken for bedding and dig special toilet pits away from the sett.
• Badgers are protected by law in Britain, so nobody may harm a badger or block or dig into a sett.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «sett» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.