Geol. [f. BASSET sb.3] Of strata: To crop out at the surface.

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1783.  Wedgwood, in Phil. Trans., LXXIII. 284. I collected some of this earth, which bassetted out … near Winster.

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1843.  J. Portlock, Geol., 98. The strata of the chalk basset, therefore, to the north.

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