backset

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Noun

backset (plural backsets)

1. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
2. Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.
   • Harper's Magazine

     Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow.

Verb

backset (backsets, present participle backsetting; past and past participle backset)

1. (US, Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

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