To get in front of; intercept; waylay; entrap.
To upset; hinder.
To beset; surround; invest; surround with difficulties; bar; impede.
backset and forset
A stratagem.
From Middle English forsetten, from Old English forsettan (“to hedge in, obstruct, oppress”), equivalent to for- + set. Cognate with Dutch verzetten (“to move”), German versetzen (“to put, move, trans...
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