Settled with daughter, we have little time (5)
I believe the answer is:
dwelt
'settled' is the definition.
The definition and answer can be both related to thinking as well as being past participle verbs.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'daughter we have little time' is the wordplay.
'daughter' becomes 'd'.
'have' means one lot of letters go next to another.
'little time' becomes 'lt' (this could be a standard abbreviation of which I'm unaware).
'd'+'we'+'lt'='DWELT'
'with' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for dwelt that I've seen before include "Had house" , "Lived (in a place)" , "Remained" , "Lived in, musically in marbe halls" , "Spoke at length" .)