Crossword clues for set-to
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Set-to \Set"-to`\, n.
A contest in boxing, in an argument, or the like. [Colloq.]
--Halliwell.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. a fight
WordNet
n. a brief but vigorous fight
Usage examples of "set-to".
The Determinists and the Absolutists were all but going at each other with knives, and the two most talented designers had been literally having tea with each other as two of their aides met in the hall in a set-to that other aides had had to break up by main force.
The second circumstance was that the promised set-to with the gloves between Hamish and his hulking challenger had resulted in a spectacular knock-out by Hamish, followed by a cheerful, unembittered relationship with the defeated Richard which Hamish found undeniably helpful.
Scunthorpe, no proficient, and was in a fair way to milling his way out of the shop when the watch, in the shape of several Charleys, all springing their rattles, burst in upon them and, after a spirited set-to, over-powered the two peacebreakers, and hailed them off to the watch-house.
It was an unpardonable mistake, as the two women differed as much as white does from black, and though the darkness forbade my seeing, and the silence my hearing, my sense of touch should have enlightened me-- after the first set-to, at all events, but my imagination was in a state of ecstasy.
I figured that if I was gonna get in any kind of a set-to with Doctor Aristotle Ho and his friends that the safest thing to have on my side was a dragon, so I told Cuddles to stand still, and then I ran to his south end and climbed all the way up his tail and back until I was sitting on top of his neck.
Abandoning all thought of armor and shields, Ignace now drew upon that deep reservoir of tactical subtlety which derives from a lifetime of experience in tavern set-tos and alehouse disputes, and essayed the time-honored tactic of fleeing like an antelope.
She was shaking-gods, she had been in dockside brawls and barfights and a set-to with her son and never lost her head like that.
She was shaking—gods, she had been in dockside brawls and barfights and a set-to with her son and never lost her head like that.
I'll tell ye how it came about: I had a set-to with a land pirate in Philadelphia, and somebody got hurt.