Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A pasture; a meadow; in Scandinavia, a mountain pasture to which the cattle are driven up and where they remain during the summer months.
  • noun A wave-cut terrace in solid rock, marking the former position of the strand.

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Examples

  • We scraped along for fifteen miles, then took cover in one of the unoccupied summer huts, a seter, that dot the Norwegian mountains.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • The next day, we got 25 miles farther, stopping this time in the seter of a Nazi sympathizer who, therefore was well off.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • We scraped along for fifteen miles, then took cover in one of the unoccupied summer huts, a seter, that dot the Norwegian mountains.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • We scraped along for fifteen miles, then took cover in one of the unoccupied summer huts, a seter, that dot the Norwegian mountains.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • We scraped along for fifteen miles, then took cover in one of the unoccupied summer huts, a seter, that dot the Norwegian mountains.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • The next day, we got 25 miles farther, stopping this time in the seter of a Nazi sympathizer who, therefore was well off.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • The next day, we got 25 miles farther, stopping this time in the seter of a Nazi sympathizer who, therefore was well off.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • The next day, we got 25 miles farther, stopping this time in the seter of a Nazi sympathizer who, therefore was well off.

    Operatives, Spies, and Saboteurs Patrick K. O'Donnell 2004

  • One of the changes Marr made was to insert Ariana Simpson as seter and it seemed to galvanize the Oaks.

    London Free Press 2010

  • Et tamen non tres seter'* ni, * fed unu« secernus.

    Breviarium ecclesiæ Rotomagensis Rouen diocese 1777

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