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Definition of Backs
1. n. pl. Among leather dealers, the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
Definition of Backs
1. Noun. (plural of back) ¹
2. Verb. (third-person singular of back) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Backs
1. back [v] - See also: back
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backs
Literary usage of Backs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round by Charles Dickens (1873)
"ON SOME backs OF HOUSES. LOOKING out of window is a very general recreation in
Italy. ... But got a good commanding view of some backs of houses, with, ..."
2. Colonial Furniture in America by Luke Vincent Lockwood (1913)
"Cane Settle with three chair backs, about 1675 129 621. ... Settee with two chair
backs in Chinese taste, 1750-60 134 628. Settee with two chair backs, ..."
3. The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1860)
"... that they may have a seeming colour to throw religion (for the sake of some
infirmities they have espied in them) behind their backs. 6. ..."
4. The Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert: Embracing Romances, Travels by Gustave Flaubert, Ferdinand Brunetière (1904)
"... and napkins on the backs of chairs; and parallel with it ran a corridor in
which gold-coloured sticks supported an espalier of roses. ..."
5. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"Troy in our front, the sea upon our backs, We camp alone ; our only ray of hope
Is in the battle—in retreat is none !" He spoke, and fiercely with his ..."
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