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Definition of "somerset" [somerset]

  • See somersault. (noun)
  • To perform a somersault. (verb-intransitive)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "somerset" in a sentence
  • "Hat crime is out of control in somerset, back to front baseball caps mainly, but even the grannies are at it."
  • "We had scarcely lost sight of his feet, as he shot through the heart of the wave, when such a dash took place as must have crushed him to pieces had he stuck by his catamaran, which was whisked instantly afterwards, by a kind of somerset, completely out of the water by its rebounding off the sandbank."
  • "I look forward to anything he has to bring. clarence somerset"