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backset

N การ พบ อุปสรรค kan-pob-ub-pa-sak

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

BACKSET

a.[back and set. ] Set upon in the rear.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BACKSET

Back "set `, n. Etym: [Back, adv. + set. ]

1. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.

2. Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water. Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow. Harper's Mag.

BACKSET

BACKSET Back "set `, v. i.

Defn: To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]

BACKSETTLER

Back "set "tler, n. Etym: [Back, a. + settler. ]

Defn: One living in the back or outlying districts of a community. The English backsettlers of Leinster and Munster. Macaulay.