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Forset vs Forpet - What's the difference?

forset | forpet |

As nouns the difference between forset and forpet

is that forset is (dialectal) a strategem while forpet is (dated|scotland) a quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.

As a verb forset

is (dialectal) to get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.

forset

English

Alternative forms

* (l) (Scotland)

Verb

  • (dialectal) To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
  • (transitive, dialectal, figuratively) To upset; hinder.
  • (dialectal) To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.
    • backset and forset
  • (transitive, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To overpower; give one too much of anything; surfeit.
  • (transitive, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, by extension) To overburden or overpower with work; overwork; overtax.

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dialectal) A strategem.

    • References

    * Wright, The English Dialect Dictionary , Forset.

    forpet

    English

    Alternative forms

    * forpit

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (dated, Scotland) A quarter (fourth part) used especially as a unit of mass or capacity.
  • * 1807 , Letters from a young Farmer to his Father'', ''The Farmer's Magazine , Volume 8, Edinburgh, page 472,
    • Now, as I learned afterwardsthat straw is used each day, which carried six bolls, one firlot, and three forpets' of grain; that each bunch of straw yielded something less than one peck and three ' forpets ; and that the extent of ground which produced the straw for one day's consumption, was seventy hundredth parts of an acre, Scotch measure.
  • * 1816 , James Cleland, Annals of Glasgow , Volume 2, page 221,
    • The forpet , or one-fourth part of a peck, contains 3 Scotch standard pints and one choppin, is 7¾ inches diameter at the bottom, 6¾ inches at the mouth, and 9? inches deep.
  • * 1829 , George Robertson, Rural Recollections , page 313,
    • they were gradually disposed of during the winter and ensuing spring, on the Edinburgh street—hawked about in carts, or sold to hucksters, who re-sold them to the town's people, in forpets''''' and ''half-'''forpets , at a small advance in price, (about a shilling on a boll,) to reimburse them for their trouble.