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set

• 1 n. a snare or trap.

  See also: variation set  

  • 1912  But what is all this beside that which waits the runner of the trail at every "set" in those many miles.
  • 1965  . . . whenever he got within a hundred yards or so of a "set" he left the trail. . . .

• 2 n. West the field or other area to be worked by a stook-threshing outfit.

  • 1922  Sometimes, to finish a "set" we would burn a straw pile and work by its light. . . .
  • 1963  Following the machinery were the stook teams, which loaded the sheaves from the field and drew them to the "set" where the separator had been levelled and located.