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Backset vs Backside - What's the difference?

backset | backside |

As nouns the difference between backset and backside

is that backset is a check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback while backside is the side of something that is opposite the front.

As a verb backset

is to plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

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)

    backside

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The side of something that is opposite the front.
  • The backside of the building faced an alley, and was covered in grime and scrawled graffiti.
  • The buttocks.
  • ''After riding the horse all day for the first time, I had painful blisters on my backside .
  • * 2014 , , " Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter", The Guardian , 18 October 2014:
  • There was a whiff of farce about Southampton’s second goal too, as, six minutes later, a bungled Sunderland pass ricocheted off Will Buckley’s backside to the feet of Dusan Tadic.

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