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back-setting†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1912 quote.
Quotations
1882
I arrived at . . . Brandon on the 28th of May, 1881, and commenced to break my land on the 5th of June . . . paying 4 dols. per acre for breaking, and 3 dols. 50c for back-setting.
1912
The prairie is first "broken"; that is, ploughed as thin as possible, and back-setting is a second and deeper ploughing, after the original surface sod has rotted.