Seter vs Sewer - What's the difference?
seter | sewer |
A summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of Scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance.
* 1964 , Reidar Christiansen, Folktales of Norway , page 114:
* 1968 , Axel Christian Zetlitz Sømme, A geography of Norden: Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden , page 248:
* 2002 , Brian Roberts, Landscapes of Settlement: Prehistory to the Present , page 131:
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==Norwegian Bokmål==
A pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage.
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* 1819 , (Walter Scott), Ivanhoe :
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 287:
One who sews.
A small tortricid moth whose larva sews together the edges of a leaf by means of silk.
As nouns the difference between seter and sewer
is that seter is a summer pasture with barns, especially one in the mountains of scandinavia used for milk and cheese manufacture, to which a farmer takes livestock as part of transhumance while sewer is a pipe or system of pipes used to remove human waste and to provide drainage or sewer can be a servant attending at a meal, responsible for seating arrangements, serving dishes etc or sewer can be one who sews.seter
English
Noun
(en noun)- Every summer, a long long time ago, they went up to the seter with the cows from Melbustad, in Hadeland.
- In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters' in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the ' seters .
- For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.
Noun
sewer
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Noun
(wikipedia sewer) (en noun)It's a gas, passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
Etymology 2
From (etyl) asseour, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)- While the Saxon was plunged in these painful reflections, the door of their prison opened, and gave entrance to a sewer , holding his white rod of office.
- His nephew Charles, meanwhile, had grown up in the royal household, working as a sewer , or waiter.
Etymology 3
Noun
(en noun)- the apple-leaf sewer , Phoxopteris nubeculana