Noun: settle
| Singular | settle |
| Plural | settles |
Sample Sentences
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sit on a settle of joy with angels [c. 1348, Richard Rolle, The Form of Living:]
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If hunger drive the Pagans from their dens,
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One, 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins; [1608, Joshua Sylvester, “The Law”, in Du Bartas his divine weekes and workes:]
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"The gloom of those failing embers," exclaimed Francesca, "Has infected us both!" and, rising from the low settle, she lighted the lamp, and flung some smaller wood on the hearth, and a cheerful blaze kindled at once. [1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter X, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 110:]
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[The] Queen or eorl's wife, with a train of maidens, bore ale-bowl or mead-bowl round the hall, from the high settle of king or ealdorman in the midst to the mead benches ranged around its walls, while the gleeman sang the hero-songs [1878–1880, John Richard Green, A History of the English People]
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Beneath its shade, the place of state, / On oaken settle Marmion sate, / And viewed around the blazing hearth. [1808 February 22, Walter Scott, “Canto Third. The Hostel, or Inn.”, in Marmion; a Tale of Flodden Field, Edinburgh: […] J[ames] Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Company, […]; London: William Miller, and John Murray, →OCLC, stanza III, page 103:]
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Let us return now to the little girl we left feigning to sleep soundly upon a settle in the kitchen. [1880, Ellen Murray Beam, English translation of Captain Fracasse by Théophile Gautier]
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Nineteen persons were gathered here. Of these, […] John Pitcher, a neighbouring dairyman, the shepherd's father-in-law, lolled in the settle; […] [1883 March, Thomas Hardy, “The Three Strangers”, in Wessex Tales: Strange, Lively, and Commonplace […], volume I, London; New York, N.Y.: Macmillan and Co., published 1888, →OCLC, page 7:]
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By the fireside, the big arm-chair […] fondly cronied with two venerable settles within the chimney corner. [1886, John Williamson Palmer, After His Kind:]
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And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit. [1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Ezekiel 43:14:]
Nouns inflected like settle
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English settle, setle, setel, setil, seotel, from Old English setl (“that upon which one sits, a seat, a settle, a place to sit”), from Proto-Germanic *setlaz (“a seat; arm-chair”), representing Proto-Indo-European *sed-lo-, from *sed- (“sit”). Cognate with Dutch zetel, German Sessel, Latin sella. See: Middle English Nouns '
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Sessel', Latin Nouns '
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Verbs referencing "settle"
German Nouns
Sessel, English Nouns
seld.