setdown

The act of setting down something or someone.

setdown areas in a factory for materials unloaded from incoming vehicles

The [tour] bus brought them to the next setdown point, the gravesites of John and Robert Kennedy.

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.

The medic would have to hold them on hover and watch the radar for a clear setdown.

The humbling of a person by act or words.

Diva fell quietly asleep, and presently there were indications that she would soon be noisily asleep. Miss Mapp hoped that she would begin to snore properly, for that would be a good set-down for Lucia […]

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.

To see a family taking deck passage on the boat […] is an interesting spot in the day’s experience, especially when some patronising passenger, accustomed to “natives” in other countries, gets one of the delightful set-downs the Maori can give so effectively.

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.

They had just finished eating, and I was taken right into the dining room—in itself a most unusual happening, for the tramp who is lucky enough to win a set-down usually receives it in the kitchen.