backset

A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

Noun

  1. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
  2. Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.
    • Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow. - (Can we date this quote?), Harper's Magazine:

Origin

From back + set.

Forms

backsets

Verb

  1. To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

Forms

backsets backsetting backset