Word.ws English Dictionary

setting dogs

setting dogs is the plural of setting dog.

Meaning of setting dog

Noun

setting dog (plural setting dogs)

  1. (historical) A dog trained to set game; a setter.
    • Affectation is not confined to Man, educated Animals all have a Share: the well-broke silky-hair'd English Setting-dog a large one.1789 March, Hester Thrale Piozzi, Thraliana

Questions about setting dogs

What is setting dogs the plural of?
Setting dogs is the plural of setting dog.

Words near setting dogs in the dictionary

  1. setting by
  2. setting by the ears
  3. setting coat
  4. setting coats
  5. setting dog
  6. setting dogs
  7. setting down
  8. setting eyes on
  9. setting fair
  10. setting fire by
  11. setting fire in

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: setting dogs (page history and authors); setting dog (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “setting dogs.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/setting_dogs. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.