backset

Example Sentences

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One key measurement is the backset: the distance from the edge of the door to the center of the handle.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 22, 2019

He did a good job protecting the backset and blocking shots.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 25, 2012

Of course such a backset could not long deter Percy from flying.

From The Airplane Boys among the Clouds or, Young Aviators in a Wreck by Langworthy, John Luther

The water is backset by a mill-dam for two miles, forming a small lake.

From Historic Waterways?Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers by Thwaites, Reuben Gold

Many are benefited by one or another effect of the process: by the root pruning they get, by the "division," by the change of soil, by change of exposure or even by backset in growth.

From The Amateur Garden by Cable, George Washington