Word Meanings - ROUNDSHOULDERED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.

• BACKRACKBACKRAG
  See Bacharach.
• 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.
• Backwash
  To clean the oil from (wood) after combing.
• Rounding
  of Round
• Roundridge
  To form into round ridges by plowing.
• BACKSHEESHBACKSHISH
  In Egypt and the Turkish empire, a gratuity; a "tip".
• Backdoor
  Acting from behind and in concealment; as, backdoor intrigues.
• Backpiece
  Alt. of Backplate
• Backslider
  One who backslides.
• 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.
• Haversack
  A bag for oats or oatmeal.
• Roundabout
  Circuitous; going round; indirect; as, roundabout speech.
• Round-shouldered
  Having the shoulders stooping or projecting; round-backed.
• 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.
• BACKSTAIRSBACKSTAIR
  Private; indirect; secret; intriguing; as if finding access by the back stairs. A backstairs influence. Burke. Female caprice and backstairs influence. Trevelyan.
• 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.

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