backset

== English == === Etymology === From back +‎ set. === Noun === backset (plural backsets) A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback. Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water. === Verb === backset (third-person singular simple present backsets, present participle backsetting, simple past and past participle backset) (US, especially Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring. === Further reading === “backset”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC. === Anagrams === backest, backets, set back, setback