Definitions for: Backset






Webster (1913) Definition: 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.


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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