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backset |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Backset \Back"set`\, n. [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. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Backset \Back"set`\, v. i. To plow again in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]
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