SETTER

setter

(noun) a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point

compositor, typesetter, setter, typographer

(noun) one who sets written material into type

Source: WordNet® 3.1

Etymology 1

Noun

setter (plural setters)

One who sets something, especially a typesetter.

A long-haired breed of gundog (Wikipedia).

(volleyball) The player who is responsible for setting, or passing, the ball to teammates for an attack.

(object-oriented programming) A function used to modify the value of some property of an object, contrasted with the getter.

(sports, in combinations) A game or match that lasts a certain number of sets.

One who hunts victims for sharpers.

One who adapts words to music in composition.

A shallow seggar for porcelain.

Synonyms

• (computing): mutator

Etymology 2

Verb

setter (third-person singular simple present setters, present participle settering, simple past and past participle settered)

(UK, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.

Anagrams

• Street, Tester, Teters, retest, street, tester

Proper noun

Setter

A surname.

Anagrams

• Street, Tester, Teters, retest, street, tester

Source: Wiktionary

Set"ter, n.

1. One who, or that which, sets; -- used mostly in composition with a noun, as typesetter; or in combination with an adverb, as a setter on (or inciter), a setter up, a setter forth.

2. (Zoöl.)

Definition: 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.

Note: There are several distinct varieties of setters; as, the Irish, or red, setter; the Gordon setter, which is usually red or tan varied with black; and the English setter, which is variously colored, but usually white and tawny red, with or without black.

3. One who hunts victims for sharpers. Shak.

4. One who adapts words to music in composition.

5. An adornment; a decoration; -- with off. [Obs.] They come as . . . setters off of thy graces. Whitlock.

6. (Pottery)

Definition: A shallow seggar for porcelain. Ure.

Set"ter, v. t.

Definition: To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue. [Prov. Eng.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition