Word Meanings - SADDLEBACK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Same as Saddle-backed.

• Back door
  A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
• 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.
• Saddletree
  The frame of a saddle.
• 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.
• 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  An instrument formerly used for taking the altitude of the heavenly bodies, but now superseded by the quadrant and sextant; -- so called because the observer turned his back to the body observed.
• Backwoods
  The forests or partly cleared grounds on the frontiers.
• BACKHEEL
  A method of tripping by getting the leg back of the opponent's heel on the outside and pulling forward while pushing his body back; a throw made in this way. -- v. t.
• Backarack
  A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine.
• Backrack
  Alt. of Backrag
• Back stairs
  Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.

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