Word Meanings - BROKEN-BACKED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship. Totten. (more info) 1. Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.

Related words: (words related to BROKEN-BACKED)

• HOGGET
  1. A young boar of the second year. 2. A sheep or colt alter it has passed its first year.
• BACKWORM
  A disease of hawks. See Filanders. Wright.
• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• BACKSTRESS
  A female baker.
• DROOPER
  One who, or that which, droops.
• BROKEN WIND
  The heaves.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• HOGGER-PIPE; HOGGERPIPE
  The upper terminal pipe of a mining pump. Raymond.
• BROKEN BREAST
  Abscess of the mammary gland.
• BACKING
  The preparation of the back of a book with glue, etc., before putting on the cover. (more info) 1. The act of moving backward, or of putting or moving anything backward. 2. That which is behind, and forms the back of, anything, usually
• BACKHANDER
  A backhanded blow.
• BACKSLIDING
  Slipping back; falling back into sin or error; sinning. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord. Jer. iii. 14.
• BACKSTITCH
  A stitch made by setting the needle back of the end of the last stitch, and bringing it out in front of the end.
• BACKSAW
  A saw whose blade is stiffened by an added metallic back.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• BROKEN
  1. Separated into parts or pieces by violence; divided into fragments; as, a broken chain or rope; a broken dish. 2. Disconnected; not continuous; also, rough; uneven; as, a broken surface. 3. Fractured; cracked; disunited; sundered; strained;
• DROOPINGLY
  In a drooping manner.
• BACKWARD; BACKWARDS
  1. With the back in advance or foremost; as, to ride backward. 2. Toward the back; toward the rear; as, to throw the arms backward. 3. On the back, or with the back downward. Thou wilt fall backward. Shak. 4. Toward, or in, past time or events;
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• BACKGROUND
  The space which is behind and subordinate to a portrait or group of figures. Note: The distance in a picture is usually divided into foreground, middle distance, and background. Fairholt. 3. Anything behind, serving as a foil; as, the statue had
• PICKABACK
  A woman stooping to take a child pickaback. R,Jefferies.
• UNFRAME
  To take apart, or destroy the frame of. Dryden.
• WARTY-BACK
  An American fresh-water mussel . Its shell is used in making buttons.
• CAMELBACKED; CAMEL-BACKED
  Having a back like a camel; humpbacked. Fuller.
• SLOWBACK
  A lubber; an idle fellow; a loiterer. Dr. Favour.
• SCRATCHBACK
  A toy which imitates the sound of tearing cloth, -- used by drawing it across the back of unsuspecting persons.
• BROWNBACK
  The dowitcher or red-breasted snipe. See Dowitcher.
• FINBACK
  Any whale of the genera Sibbaldius, Balænoptera, and allied genera, of the family Balænopteridæ, characterized by a prominent fin on the back. The common finbacks of the New England coast are Sibbaldius tectirostris and S. tuberosus.
• HOGBACK
  An upward curve or very obtuse angle in the upper surface of any member, as of a timber laid horizontally; -- the opposite of camber.