backset Meaning, Definition & Usage

Back"set` noun

Etymology

Back, adv. + set.

Definitions

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` intransitive verb

Definitions

1. To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. Western U.S.