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backseat

English

Etymology

From back +? seat

Noun

backseat (plural backseats)

  1. Alternative spelling of back seat

Anagrams

  • back east, seatback, set aback

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backset

English

Etymology

back +? set

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 (third-person singular simple present backsets, present participle backsetting, simple past and past participle backset)

  1. (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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

  • backest, backets, set back, setback

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