Definition of Backfilled

1. Verb. (past of backfill) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Backfilled

1. backfill [v] - See also: backfill

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backfilled

backend
backends
backer
backers
backest
backet
backets
backfall
backfalls
backfield
backfields
backfile
backfile conversion
backfiles
backfill
backfilled (current term)
backfilling
backfills
backfire
backfired
backfires
backfiring
backfisch
backfische
backfit
backfits
backfitted
backfitting
backflip
backflipped

Literary usage of Backfilled

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. American Sewerage Practice by Leonard. Metcalf, Harrison Prescott Eddy (1915)
"If the sheeting is drawn after the trench has been backfilled, and especially if it has been driven below the springing line, care should be taken to fill ..."

2. Engineering Geology Applied to the Design and Operation of Underground Coal by C. Richard Dunrud (2000)
"... of the rock beam element EXPLANATION Goaf treatment backfilled pneumatically 1.0 1.2 -0.8 -0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 Figure 61. ..."

3. Sewerage: The Designing, Construction, and Maintenance of Sewerage Systems by Amory Prescott Folwell (1916)
"Unless otherwise shown on the plan, trenches shall be backfilled to the height of the surface of the ground as it existed at the commencement of the work. ..."

4. Sewerage: The Designing, Constructing and Maintaining of Sewerage Systems by Amory Prescott Folwell (1922)
"Unless otherwise shown on the plan, trenches shall be backfilled to the height of the surface of the ground as it existed at the commencement of the work. ..."

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