- setl
- n (-es/-) 1. that on which one sits, a settle, seat, place to sit; [Nth pl -as]; 1a. an official seat of a king, judge, etc., a throne, judgment-seat; fore \setle before the throne; 1b. metaph., seat, place, position; 1c. in reference to the heavenly bodies, tó \setle gán, to set (of the sun); 2. a seat, place where one abides, an abode, a residence, dwelling; a stall for animals; 2a. as an ecclesiastical term, a see; 2b. metaph., seat of a disorder, etc., dwelling-place of non-material things; 3. the part of the body on which one sits, the seat; 4. a sitting, the being in, or assuming, a sitting position; 4a. stay, residence; on þǽm setle þe hé þǽr sæt during the stay he made there; 4b. as a military term, a siege;
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.