forset
Verb
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Verb
forset (forsets, present participle forsetting; past forset, past participle forset)
- (transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
- (transitive, dialectal, figuratively, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To upset; hinder.
- (transitive, dialectal, Cumbria, Westmoreland, Lancashire, Lincolnshire) To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.
- backset and forset
- (transitive, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland) To overpower; give one too much of anything; surfeit.
- (transitive, dialectal, chiefly, Scotland, by extension) To overburden or overpower with work; overwork; overtax.
forset (plural forsets)
- (transitive, dialectal) A stratagem.
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