What does "backset" mean?
Backset: Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water. Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow. Harper's Mag.
Additional senses
- 2.To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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