sattle
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English sahtlen, which merged with set(t)len, as in the standard English form settle (which see).
Verb
[edit]sattle (third-person singular simple present sattles, present participle sattling, simple past and past participle sattled)
- (UK, dialectal) Alternative form of settle, especially in the senses of "silence; become or make calm or orderly; adjust differences or accounts; settle down".
- 1829, William Oliver, A Collection of Original Local [Newcastle] Songs: Tim Tunbelly, page 16:
- He'll seun sattle obstropolous Billy — Nee mair he'll refuse for a way-leave to pay.
- 1889, John Nicholson, The Folk Speech of East Yorkshire, page 35:
- Ah can sattle a dog and cat wivoot thah help.
- 1870, Jabez Oliphant, quoted in The English Dialect Dictionary:
- Well, we'll sattle him, only how!
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Verb
[edit]sattle
- inflection of satteln: