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Definition of Backward and forward
1. Adverb. Moving from one place to another and back again. "The old man just sat on the porch and rocked back and forth all day"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Backward And Forward
Literary usage of Backward and forward
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Popular Customs and of Rites, Ceremonies, Observances, and by William Shepard Walsh (1897)
"Here stands a man during tlie processions, working the colossal head backward
and forward by means of a winch. ..."
2. Observations on the Inhabitants, Climate, Soil, Rivers, Productions, Animals by John Bartram, Pehr Kalm (1895)
"... walked backward and forward in the common paf- fage, near 2 thirds of its
length, with a flow even pace, ..."
3. Life and Death of Mr. Badman and The Holy War by John Bunyan (1905)
"Yea through the working of them backward and forward, Mansoul became as a ball
tossed, and as a rolling thing before the whirlwind. ..."
4. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs, from September 1678 to April 1714 by Narcissus Luttrell (1857)
"Mr. L'estrange was before the councill, being accused by young Tongue, but he
goeing backward and forward in his accusation, and his majestic speaking very ..."
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