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A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.
Alt. of Backplate
A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
Alt. of Backrag
See Bacharach.
Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
A saw (as a tenon saw) whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.
A check; a relapse; a discouragement; a setback.
Whatever is thrown back in its course, as water.
To plow again, in the fall; -- said of prairie land broken up in the spring.
One living in the back or outlying districts of a community.
Alt. of Backshish
In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a "tip".
The hinder part, posteriors, or rump of a person or animal.
The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3.
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To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
One who backslides.