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onsetter|ˈɒnˌsɛtə(r)|
[on-1 4.]
†1. One who sets on, or urges on; an inciter. Obs.
1549Coverdale, etc. Erasm. Par. 1 Peter 7 Playng the intercessour and not the on settour. 1600Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1814) 240 Persones makeris of the saidis tuilyeis and combattis, eftir dew tryell that they war the first onsettaris..sall be..apprehendit. 1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. (1630) 179 Let vs..beware how we become on-setters to prophanenesse. 1641Earl of Monmouth tr. Biondi's Civil Warres ii. 47 The King..knowing that Clemencie and Grace would more redound to his glory, then..to make himselfe bee beleeved their on-setter, appeased them; pardoning all of them.
2. One who makes an onset; an assailant. arch.
1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. x. 332 Tha war not the first onsetteris. 1870Morris Earthly Par. II. iii. 500 Until the first, From midst the knot of those onsetters burst.
3. Coal-mining. A workman who puts the corves or tubs into the cage at the bottom of the shaft; = hanger-on (hanger2 5 c).
1789Brand Hist. Newcastle II. 682 It is the onsetter's business to hang on the corves upon the rope to be drawn up the shaft. 1867W. W. Smyth Coal & Coal-mining 151 Keeping the total weight so moderate that..the onsetter and banksmen can easily handle and run the tubs on the iron plates at the bottom and top of the shaft. 1883Athenæum 20 Jan. 92/1 At present the light is only down to the onsetter's cabin.
So ˈonˌsetting vbl. n., † (a) the action of placing or fixing on (obs.); (b) setting on, incitement; † an attack, assault (obs.); onsetting ppl. a., attacking, assailing.
1501in Ld. Treas. Acc. Scot. II. 115 For..new girths set on the powdir barrelis, and for onsetting of thaim. 1541Aberdeen Reg. XVII. (Jam.), He hes maid diuerss on⁓settingis & prouocaciounis on hym. 1619W. Sclater Exp. 1 Thess. (1630) 179 All the sinnes that by his on-setting and occasion haue beene committed. 1892Henley Song of Sword, etc. Rhymes xxi. 2 The roar of onsetting waves. |