setdown

noun6

1. •
   The act of setting down something or someone.

   • setdown areas in a factory for materials unloaded from incoming vehicles
2. •
   The act of descending onto a surface (of an aircraft or spacecraft).

   • The platforms [at the rear of the spaceship] will also have legs for landing—designed to cushion the setdown and also to help level off the ship. — 1957
3. •
   (old-fashioned) The humbling of a person by act or words.
4. •
   (old-fashioned) A retort or a reproof that has a humbling effect.

   • He walked here, and he walked there, fancying himself so very great! […] I wish you had been there my dear, to have given him one of your set downs. — 1813
5. •
   (slang, no longer used) A sit-down meal eaten by a tramp; a charitable meal provided to a tramp in the giver's home.

   • In Germany and England the tramps usually eat their set-downs in cheap restaurants or at lodging-houses. — 1899
6. •
   (slang, no longer used) A person’s buttocks.

   • “If we [boys] did get caught the watchman would take the wooden end of his hood, slap our setdowns, then give us a kick and say, ‘Get out!’ […]” — 1915