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Backset - What does it mean?

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backset

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
  • Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.
  • * Harper's Magazine
    • Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow.

    Verb

  • (US, Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
    • (Webster 1913)

    Not English

    has no English definition. It may be misspelled.