setdowns

Noun

setdown (countable and uncountable, plural setdowns)

1. The act of setting down something or someone.
   • setdown areas in a factory for materials unloaded from incoming vehicles
2. The act of descending onto a surface (of an aircraft or spacecraft).
   • The platforms [at the rear of the spaceship] will also have legs for landing—designed to cushion the setdown and also to help level off the ship.1957, Lester Del Rey, chapter 11, in Rockets through Space, Philadelphia: John C. Winston, page 62

   Synonyms:

   landing, touchdown

3. (dated) The humbling of a person by act or words.
   • Diva fell quietly asleep, and presently there were indications that she would soon be noisily asleep. Miss Mapp hoped that she would begin to snore properly, for that would be a good set-down for Lucia […]1931, E. F. Benson, chapter 6, in Mapp and Lucia, London: Hesperus, published 2014, page 143
4. (dated) A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.
   • He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! […] I wish you had been there my dear, to have given him one of your set downs.1813 January 27, [Jane Austen], chapter 3, in Pride and Prejudice: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: […] [George Sidney] for T[homas] Egerton, […], →OCLC, page 26

   Synonyms:

   put-down

5. (obsolete, slang) A sit-down meal eaten by a tramp; a charitable meal provided to a tramp in the giver's home.
   • In Germany and England the tramps usually eat their set-downs in cheap restaurants or at lodging-houses.1899, Josiah Flynt, Tramping with Tramps, New York: Century, published 1901, Part 1, Chapter 6, p. 146, footnote 1
6. (US, obsolete, slang) A person’s buttocks.
   • “If we [boys] did get caught the watchman would take the wooden end of his hood, slap our setdowns, then give us a kick and say, ‘Get out!’ […]”1915, Clifton Johnson, chapter 11, in Highways and Byways of New England, New York: Macmillan, page 218