Definition of Backwork

1. underground work [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Backwork

backwaters
backweight
backweights
backwind
backwinded
backwinding
backwinds
backwood
backwoods
backwoods(a)
backwoodsman
backwoodsmen
backwoodsy
backword
backwords
backwork (current term)
backworks
backworm
backwound
backwrap
backwraps
backy
backyard
backyard cricket
backyards
baclava
baclavas
baclofen
baclofens
bacmid

Literary usage of Backwork

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

1. Buffalo Medical Journal (1905)
"is given those who care to take it, to do their dissection work when they can devote their entire attention to it, or to make up backwork, or repeat work on ..."

2. Report of the commissioners by Great Britain Schools Inquiry Commission, Schools inquiry commission (1868)
"the power of making good use of it ; the rule of regular revision of backwork, and a thousand other rudimentary principles of instruction, are constantly ..."

3. Construction and Maintenance of Railway Roadbed and Track: Arranged and by Frederick John Prior (1907)
"When the last method is practicable it is about the best, in my opinion, the spikes for the ‘backwork' then being carried on a separate car and distributed ..."

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