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- noun Plural form of
setter .
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Examples
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The possible downside to this strain of setters is that the owner must be in fairly good walking shape.
Jim Harrison: The Life of a Sportsman and the Lives of his Dogs 2004
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I have likewise set down the names of those we call our setters, of the wicked houses we frequent, and of those who receive and buy our stolen goods.
Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences Arthur L. Hayward
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I have likewise set down the names of those we call our setters, of the wicked houses we frequent, and of those who receive and buy our stolen goods.
Lives Of The Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed Hayward, A L 1735
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You'll notice that now, all the NumericSteppers get their values from the model, and that when their values are changed, they call setters in the model - the logic is determined by the model.
fullasagoog.com full roast blend Neil Webb 2010
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I have left with an honest man (and indeed the only honest man I was ever acquainted with) the names of all my wicked brethren, the present places of their abode, with a short account of the chief crimes they have committed; in many of which I have been their accomplice, and heard the rest from their own mouths: I have likewise set down the names of those we call our setters, of the wicked houses we frequent, and of those who receive and buy our stolen goods.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish Jonathan Swift 1706
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The populace set upon all that were of Dionysius’s party, and principally searched for those they called setters or informers, a number of wicked and hateful wretches, who made it their business to go up and down the city, thrusting themselves into all companies, that they might inform Dionysius what men said, and how they stood affected.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Victorian-era bowling alleys did not have automatic pin setters.
What Is It? Game 114 2009
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Victorian-era bowling alleys did not have automatic pin setters.
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But plainly the best-loved of Guardian crossword setters, more than half a century since his first concoction appeared, is Araucaria, less well known as the Reverend John Graham MBE.
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The divine Aryaman and they who were born unto him as his sons, O monarch, have been described as setters of commands, and creators of all creatures.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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