Usually means: Residue used in distilling whiskey.
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  1. backset: Merriam-Webster
  2. backset: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. backset: Collins English Dictionary
  4. backset: Wordnik
  5. backset: Wiktionary
  6. backset: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  7. backset: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. Backset, backset: Dictionary.com
  9. Backset: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. backset: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. Backset: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. backset: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. backset: FreeDictionary.org
  14. backset: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. backset: Merriam-Webster

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  1. backset: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (backset)

noun:  A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
noun:  Whatever is thrown back in its course, such as water.
verb:  (US, especially Western US) To plow again in the fall; said of prairie land broken up in the spring.

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