"seter" meaning in English

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          "text": "In Østlandet, on the contrary, the high mountain plateau, the gentle slopes and the grouping of seters in clusters permit the building of roads and therefore a modernized use of the seters.",
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          "text": "For example, twelfth- and thirteenth-century documents from the north of England mention place-names incorporating the term 'shield' or 'shiel', a 'shieling' being an area of summer pasture corresponding to the seters of Sweden.",
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          "text": "As far as Suess could see from the existing maps and from the aneroid that he had wisely brought with him, the seters are also horizontal. Nowhere did Suess see any marine fossils on the seters, and neither had anybody else before him.",
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          "ref": "2011, Natasha Fijn, Living with Herds: Human-Animal Coexistence in Mongolia, page 232",
          "text": "Similar to the seter, it is forbidden to touch the tree, or to chop the tree down for firewood, or timber. It is clear that the sacred tree and the seter cow have powers, beyond that of an ordinary cow or tree, which assist in protecting the herding family and their herd of animals from harm.",
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          "ref": "2011, Morten Axel Pedersen, Not Quite Shamans: Spirit Worlds and Political Lives in Northern Mongolia, page 154",
          "text": "As I entered her house early on the afternoon before the ritual, Nadmid Udgan was busy making protective amulets (seter, lusyn örgöl) on her manual sewing machine.",
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          "ref": "2013, Caroline Humphrey, Hurelbaatar Ujeed, A Monastery in Time: The Making of Mongolian Buddhism, page 238",
          "text": "So our man [Tulga] made a great show of bringing his black stallion, tied the seter, and let the horse go free.",
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          "text": "In both traditions, Shamanism and Buddhism, a rite of entrusting and consecrating a domestic animal to a deity involves tying a seter around the neck of a sheep or goat or on the mane of a horse.",
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