Granite Paving Block Crossword Clue

We think the answer is "SETT" which means:

noun
• • Rectangular paving stone with curved top; once used to make roads
verb
• • To put (something) down, to rest.
• • To attach or affix (something) to something else, or in or upon a certain place.
• • To put in a specified condition or state; to cause to be.
• • To start (a fire).
• • To cause to stop or stick; to obstruct; to fasten to a spot.
• • To determine or settle.
• • To adjust.
• • To punch (a nail) into wood so that its head is below the surface.
• • To arrange with dishes and cutlery, to set the table.
• • To introduce or describe.
• • To locate (a play, etc.); to assign a backdrop to, geographically or temporally.
• • To compile, to make (a puzzle or challenge).
• • To prepare (a stage or film set).
• • To fit (someone) up in a situation.
• • To arrange (type).
• • To devise and assign (work) to.
• • To direct (the ball) to a teammate for an attack.
• • To solidify.
• • To render stiff or solid; especially, to convert into curd; to curdle.
• • Of a heavenly body, to disappear below the horizon of a planet, etc, as the latter rotates.
• • To defeat a contract.
• • (now followed by "out", as in set out) to begin to move; to go forth.
• • To produce after pollination.
• • (of fruit) to be fixed for growth; to strike root; to begin to germinate or form.
• • (midwestern us) to sit (be in a seated position).
• • To hunt game with the aid of a setter.
• • Of a dog, to indicate the position of game.
• • To apply oneself; to undertake earnestly.
• • To fit music to words.
• • To place plants or shoots in the ground; to plant.
• • To become fixed or rigid; to be fastened.
• • To have a certain direction of motion; to flow; to move on; to tend.
• • (country dancing) to acknowledge a dancing partner by facing him or her and moving first to one side and then to the other, while she or he does the opposite.
• • To place or fix in a setting.
• • To put in order in a particular manner; to prepare.
• • To extend and bring into position; to spread.
• • To give a pitch to, as a tune; to start by fixing the keynote.
• • To reduce from a dislocated or fractured state.
• • To lower into place and fix solidly, as the blocks of cut stone in a structure.
• • To wager in gambling; to risk.
• • To adorn with something infixed or affixed; to stud; to variegate with objects placed here and there.
• • To value; to rate; used with at.
• • To establish as a rule; to furnish; to prescribe; to assign.
• • To suit; to become.
• • To divide a class group in a subject according to ability

An example sentence would be:

• • "The sett of the animal provided a warm and cozy resting place."
• • "The architect designed a beautiful stone sett for the garden pathway."

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