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- verb Present participle of
backset .
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Examples
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The breaking goes on until the middle of July, and the end of August the "backsetting" begins, which is ploughing the same ground over again about two inches deeper.
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall
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A---- has had one for some time, but as yet only the deep ploughing or backsetting of last year's breaking has been going on, and until the seeding and harrowing is finished, which ought to have been done before now, but this year has been delayed by the lateness of the spring, and the snow being so long in melting, no fresh breaking has been begun.
A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba Cecil Hall
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Besides, the mad hatred they bore Perkins and the hope of backsetting him led them on.
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Jasper sowed on less backsetting, "she said," and they're buying new teams and plows.
Masters of the Wheat-Lands Harold Bindloss 1905
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Jake and Jasper sowed on less backsetting, and they're buying new teams and ploughs.
Hawtrey's Deputy Harold Bindloss 1905
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