backset

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

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