Dictionary Entry
setter
setter is a 6-letter English word with 9 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 6 in Scrabble and 6 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 6 · Words With Friends 6 · 9 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
One who hunts victims for sharpers.
- 4noun
One who adapts words to music in composition.
- 5noun
An adornment; a decoration; -- with off.
- 6noun
A shallow seggar for porcelain.
- 7transitive verb
To cut the dewlap (of a cow or an ox), and to insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.
- 8noun
a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
- 9noun
one who sets written material into type
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