backset
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]backset (plural backsets)
- A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
- Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.
- (Can we date this quote?), Harper's Magazine:
- Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow.
Verb
[edit]backset (third-person singular simple present backsets, present participle backsetting, simple past and past participle backset)
- (US, especially Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
Further reading
[edit]- “backset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.