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Backset
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(n.) Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
(2):
(n.) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
(3):
(v. i.) To plow again, in the fall; - said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Backset'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/backset.html. 1828.