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Definition of Straight-backed
1. Adverb. In a straight-backed manner. "The old man still walks erectly"
2. Adjective. Having a straight back. "A slim straight-backed dancer"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Straight-backed
Literary usage of Straight-backed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Advice to a Mother on the Management of Her Children: And on the Treatment by Pye Henry Chavasse (1868)
"straight-backed chairs arc instruments of torture, and are more likely to make a
... Sir Astley Cooper ridiculed straight- backed chairs, and well he might. ..."
2. The Geographical Journal by Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). (1905)
"The long-horned, ordinarily straight-backed ox is at present one of the unsolved
African problems. It is present in western and southern Nigeria, ..."
3. Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research by American Society for Psychical Research (1909)
"They were d either for kitchen or chamber or anything, you know, that •body
wanted, but they are straight backed, like rush-bottom 1 straight-back. ..."
4. Cattle: Their History and Various Breeds: To which is Added the Dairy by William Charles Linnaeus Martin (1853)
"... foremost in the upper compartment is distinguished by its hump and shorter
horns from the long-horned, straight-backed cattle in the lower compartment. ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1889)
"Each had three marble tables and twelve straight-backed chairs ranged against
... There were more tables and more straight- backed chairs there than in the ..."
6. The Lancet (1860)
"A straight-backed bistoury is now entered half an inch above the anal aperture,
... The knife should be straight backed, having the blade not more than two ..."
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