Hypertext Webster Gateway: "backset"
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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