forset
Verb

forset (forsets, present participle forsetting; past forset, past participle forset)

  1. (transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
  2. (transitive, dialectal, figuratively, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To upset; hinder.
  3. (transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.
    backset and forset
  4. (transitive, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To overpower; give one too much of anything; surfeit.
  5. (transitive, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, by extension) To overburden or overpower with work; overwork; overtax.
Noun

forset (plural forsets)

  1. (transitive, dialectal) A stratagem.



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