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Backset
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
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.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]