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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 back·set /ˈbækˌsɛt/
 倒退,逆流,渦流

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Back·set n.
 1. A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
 2. Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
    Slackwater, or the backset caused by the overflow.   --Harper's Mag.

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Back·set, v. t. To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring. [Western U.S.]