Sett vs Cobblestone - What's the difference?
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The system of tunnels that is the home of a badger.
The pattern of distinctive threads and yarns that make up the plaid of a Scottish tartan.
A small, square-cut piece of quarried stone used for paving and edging.
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A rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.
As nouns the difference between sett and cobblestone
is that sett is the system of tunnels that is the home of a badger while cobblestone is a rounded stone from a river bed, fit for use as ballast in ships and for paving roads.As a verb sett
is .sett
English
(wikipedia sett)Alternative forms
* setNoun
(en noun)- Very durable grey granite has been quarried near Aberdeen for more than 300 years, and blocked and dressed paving "setts ," kerb and building stones, and monumental and other ornamental work of granite have long been exported from the district to all parts of the world.
- Three horses trotted abreast, with the clatter of hoofs on the granite setts , and the yellow, uproarious machine jolted violently behind them, [...]
- The old market-square was not very large, a mere bare patch of granite setts , usually with a few fruit-stalls under a wall.