Meaning of Settle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A seat of any kind.
   archaic
2. A town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England, previously in Craven district (OS grid ref SD816640).
   countable, uncountable
3. An unincorporated community in Allen County, Kentucky, United States.
   countable, uncountable
4. A long bench with a high back and arms, often with chest or storage space underneath.
   archaic
5. A habitational surname from Old English.
   countable, uncountable
6. A place made lower than the rest; a wide step or platform lower than some other part. (Compare a depression.)
   obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“sit on a settle of joy with angels”

“If hunger drive the Pagans from their dens, One, 'gainst a settle breaketh both his shins;”

“"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.”

“[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”

“Beneath its shade, the place of state, / On oaken settle Marmion sate, / And viewed around the blazing hearth.”

“Let us return now to the little girl we left feigning to sleep soundly upon a settle in the kitchen.”

“Nineteen persons were gathered here. Of these, […] John Pitcher, a neighbouring dairyman, the shepherd's father-in-law, lolled in the settle; […]”

“By the fireside, the big arm-chair […] fondly cronied with two venerable settles within the chimney corner.”

“And from the bottom upon the ground, even to the lower settle, shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit.”

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