Word Meanings - BROKEN-BACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.

• Backwash
  To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
• Chairing
  of Chair
• Haversian
  Pertaining to, or discovered by, Clopton Havers, an English physician of the seventeenth century.
• Back door
  A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
• Backlog
  A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth.
• Backslide
  To slide back; to fall away; esp. to abandon gradually the faith and practice of a religion that has been professed.
• Backwater
  Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current , or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
• Chairmen
  of Chairman
• Havildar
  In the British Indian armies, a noncommissioned officer of native soldiers, corresponding to a sergeant.
• Backdoor
  Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues.
• Backpiece
  Alt. of Backplate
• Backslider
  One who backslides.
• Backwoods
  The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
• Chairman
  The presiding officer of a committee, or of a public or private meeting, or of any organized body.
• Backare
  Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess.
• Backdown
  A receding or giving up; a complete surrender.
• Backplate
  A piece, or plate which forms the back of anything, or which covers the back; armor for the back.
• Backstaff
  An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.

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