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