单词 | back-set |
释义 | back-set, n.|ˈbæksɛt| [f. back adv.] 1. A setting back; a reverse, check, relapse. (Of Sc. origin.)
1721Wodrow Hist. II. 555 (Jam.) The people of God have got many backsets one after another. 1816J. C. Calhoun Wks. II. 170 It would give a back set, and might..endanger their ultimate success. 1883American V. 373 A backset which some good judges pronounced fatal. 2. An eddy or counter-current.
1882Harper's Mag. LXV. 612 The backset caused by the overflow. 1883Fortn. Rev. July 119 The back-set of some deeper-flowing stream. |

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