Meaning

2 senses

  1. (Northern England, UK, dialectal, historical)A worker at the bottom of a mineshaft who exchanges the empty and full corves.

  2. One who undergoes the onset of a condition.

Origin

From on + setter. From onset + -er.

From on + setter.

From onset + -er.

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Forms

plural: onsetters
Singularonsetter
Pluralonsetters

regular

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
onomatopoeiaonsenonsetonshoreonslaught
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