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Webster 1913 Edition
Backset
Back′setˊ
(băk′sĕtˊ)
, Noun.
[
Back
, adv. + set
.] 1.
A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
2.
Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
Slackwater, or the
backset
caused by the overflow. Harper’s Mag.
Back′setˊ
,Verb.
T.
To plow again, in the fall; – said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
[Western U.S.]