Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins andback premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
The office fell into chaos when you left, but now order isback.
Not current.
I’d like to find aback issue of that magazine.
Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
They took aback road.
He lives out in theback country.
It's OK that the highway is jammed, because I know aback way. It's another good way to get there.
In arrears; overdue.
They still owe three months’back rent.
1980 December 20, David Lamble, “Workers, Owners Battle It Out At SF Gay Hotel”, inGay Community News, volume 8, number22, page 9:
Several of the former Hotel York workers have filed with the California Labor Division to collect what they feel is owed them in the way ofback overtime.
In linguistic use describing the position of the tongue, the comparativebacker and superlativebackest are usual; these may also be occasionally found for other senses, especially informally.
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We droveback to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls datingback to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.
In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
Someone pushed me in the chest and I fellback.
The grandfather clock toppledback and crashed to the ground.
Her arm was bentback at an odd angle.
In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
Wind the filmback a few frames.
Don’t forget to put the clocksback by one hour tonight!
This mishap has set the projectback considerably.
Towards, into or in the past.
These records goback years.
He built a time machine and travelledback to 1800.
Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a big clear space like a lawn. And,back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
So as to shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
I was at Park Safari Africa in Canada on the Canadian border. This was years ago outside of Plattsburgh, New York. And I had a new car at the time, and I was driving through, going through the monkey area. And they said 'beware of the monkeys.' So about ten of them circled my car. And this one special one, like he was the leader of the pack, jumped up on the hood and came right up to the windshield and looked in. So I was like making faces at him. [garbled] 'don't do that!' And believe it or not, he made like a faceback. He jumped off the car. He took his fingernails and he peeled all the chrome on both sides of my car off. Picked it up, jumped on the hood, dropped it and left- looked at me and left.
1822, John Woods,Two Years' Residence in the Settlement on the English Prairie, in the Illinois Country, United States, page138:
Our road was chiefly through woods, and part of it lay through the Hurricane-track, that is where a strong wind, some yearsback, opened a passage through the woods for a mile in breadth...
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It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with theback turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
Convenience and custom have familiarised us to the printed page being a little higher than the middle of the leaf, and to its having a little more margin at the fore edge than in theback.
The side of ablade opposite the side used for cutting.
Tap it with theback of your knife.
Thereverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
[…]Rovers were also aided by some poor defending from West Brom, whose lapses at theback undid their excellent work on the ball and condemned Roberto di Matteo's Baggies side to a third straight defeat.
(figuratively) The upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal’s back.
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Thinks I to myself, “Sol, you’re run off your course again. This is a rich man’s summer ‘cottage’[…].” So I started toback away again into the bushes. But I hadn’tbacked more’n a couple of yards when I see something so amazing that I couldn’t help scooching down behind the bayberries and looking at it.
1954 January, H. P. White, “Vignettes of the Rail”, inRailway Magazine, page 54, at Harmon station, New York:
No sooner had a waiting locomotivebacked on to its train, the vociferous 4-6-4 or 4-8-4 re-emerged from under the bridge, and the two red marker lights on the last vehicles passed, than the headlight of the electric engine hauling the following train could be seen under the bridge and the waiting queue of locomotives had moved up one.
And Netherlands,backed by a typically noisy and colourful travelling support, started the second period in blistering fashion and could have had four goals within 10 minutes
2022 September 15, “China lodges complaint as U.S. Senate panel advances Taiwan bill”, inReuters[2], archived fromthe original on15 September 2022, Asia Pacific:
The Senate Foreign Relations Committeebacked the Taiwan Policy Act of 2022 by 17-5, despite concerns about the bill in U.S. President Joe Biden's administration and anger about the measure from Beijing.
The muggerbacked her into a corner and demanded her wallet.
1887, Harriet W. Daly,Digging, Squatting, and Pioneering Life in the Northern Territory of South Australia, page279:
The soil seems to be very good; the creek runs through the reserve, and has a dam thrown across it, whichbacks the water for a very considerable distance, and enables them to irrigate a portion of their cultivation block.
The horse was the grey stallion he aye rode, the very beast he had ridden for many a wager with the wild lads of the Cross Keys. No man but himself durstback it, and it had lamed many a hostler lad and broke two necks in its day.
He hath a garden circummured with brick, Whose western side is with a vineyardbacked
1877,Thomas Henry Huxley,Physiography: An Introduction to the Study of Nature:
the chalk cliffs whichback the beach
1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, inZollenstein, New York, N.Y.:D. Appleton & Company,→OCLC:
So this was my future home, I thought![…]Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one’s dreams.
1960 December, Voyageur, “The Mountain Railways of the Bernese Oberland”, inTrains Illustrated, page752:
So we continue climbing to the saddle of the Kleine Scheidegg, where ahead there comes into view the wide expanse of the Grindelwald valley,backed by the snowy crown of the Wetterhorn.
To write upon the back of, possibly as anendorsement.
toback a letter; toback a note or legal document
(law, of a justice of the peace) To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
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A large shallowvat; acistern,tub, ortrough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or coolingwort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
1904, František K. Hejda with et al.,Praha ve dne v noci: zajímavosti a zvláštnosti ze źivota staré a nové Prahy[5], volume 1, P. Körber, page70:
Forward útočí na branku nepřátel podporován jsa zálohou, abackové s brankářem proti tomu mají čeliti útokům forwardu nepřátelského.
Forward line attack the opponent's goal, being supported by midfielders, andbacks with the goalkeeper are supposed to face the attacks of the opponent's forward line.
1997,Kronika českého fotbalu[6], volume 1, page196:
Sparta má proslulý forward, a ten tak uvykl na svou proslulost, že se nesnaží ani trainovat, že opovrhuje běháním, že se spoléhá na znamenitou, ale pomalou kombinaci, že vlastně už zapomněl běhat, chodit mezibacky a vystavovat se nebezpečí, že svůj goal zaplatí snad nějakým tím klepnutím do choulostivých končetin.
Sparta has a renowned forward line, which got used to its fame so much, that they do not take pains to train, despise running, rely on excellent but slow combination, that they forgot how to run, go among thebacks and put themselves in danger of being hit into sensitive limbs.
