setter
noun
1. one who sets written material into type
Similar word(s): compositor, typesetter, typographer
Definition categories: person, pressman, printer
2. a long-haired dog formerly trained to crouch on finding game but now to point
Definition categories: animal
Sentences with setter as a noun:
- The exam was so hard we assumed the question setter must have been in a bad mood.
- Some crossword setters work for various newspapers under different pseudonyms.
- She has a spaniel and a red setter.
verb
1. (Britain, dialect, transitive) To cut the dewlap (of a cow or ox), and insert a seton, so as to cause an issue.