Backset
- v. i. To plow again, in the fall; — said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
- n. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
- n. Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.