Setback

(definition) by Webster 1913 Wed Dec 22 1999 at 3:03:28

Set"back` (?), n.

1. Arch.

Offset, n., 4.

2.

A backset; a countercurrent; an eddy.

[U. S.]

3.

A backset; a check; a repulse; a reverse; a relapse.

[Colloq. U.S.]

 

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