Basset

1. n. The edge of a geological stratum at the surface of the ground; the outcrop.
2. n. A game at cards, resembling the modern faro, said to have been invented at Venice.
3. a. Inclined upward; as, the basset edge of strata.

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.