The part of a piece of clothing which covers the back.
Effort, usually physical.
The reverse side; the side that is not normally seen.
The keel and keelson of a ship.
A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
The part of something that goes last.
The spine and associated tissues.
The backrest, the part of a piece of furniture which receives the human back.
A ferryboat.
The roof of a horizontal underground passage.
Large and attractive buttocks.
The inside margin of a page.
The edge of a book which is bound.
In some team sports, a position behind most players on the team.
A support or resource in reserve.
The rear of the body, especially the part between the neck and the end of the spine and opposite the chest and belly.
A non-alcoholic drink (often water or a soft drink), to go with hard liquor or a cocktail.
Among leather dealers, one of the thickest and stoutest tanned hides.
Area behind, such as the backyard of a house.
The side of a blade opposite the side used for cutting.
The side of any object which is opposite the front or useful side.
That which is farthest away from the front.
Upper part of a natural object which is considered to resemble an animal's back.
Pronounced with the highest part of the body of the tongue toward the back of the mouth, near the soft palate (most often describing a vowel).
Not current.
Situated away from the main or most frequented areas.
At or near the rear.
Returned or restored to a previous place or condition.
Moving or operating backward.
In arrears; overdue.
Before now; ago.
To go in the reverse direction.
To lay out a second, smaller anchor to provide additional holding power.
To push or force backwards.
To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
To support.
To stand still behind another dog which has pointed.
To brace the yards so that the wind presses on the front of the sail, to slow the ship.
To change direction contrary to the normal pattern; that is, to shift anticlockwise in the northern hemisphere, or clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
To make a back for; to furnish with a back.
To write upon the back of, possibly as an endorsement.
To sign or endorse (a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender).
To draw from behind the back [+accusative = a knife etc.] (as also back out).
To row backward with (oars).
To carry an infant on one's back.
In a direction opposite to the usual or desired direction of movement or progress, physically or figuratively.
So as to reverse direction and return.
Away from someone or something; at a distance.
Away from the front or from an edge.
In a manner that impedes.
In a reciprocal manner; in return.
So as shrink, recede or move aside, or cause to do so.
To a later point in time. See also put back.
Towards, into or in the past.
To or in a previous condition or place.
Earlier, ago.
In a direction opposite to that in which someone or something is facing or normally pointing.
A part of garment, such as a pair of trousers/pants, that covers a leg.
One side of a multiple-sided (often triangular) course in a sailing race.
One of the branches of a hyperbola or other curve which extend outward indefinitely.
Denotes the half of the field on the same side as the batsman's legs; the left side for a right-handed batsman.
A branch circuit; one phase of a polyphase system.
In a grain elevator, the case containing the lower part of the belt which carries the buckets.
In humans, the lower limb extending from the groin to the ankle.
A branch or lateral circuit connecting an instrument with the main line.
A single game or match played in a tournament or other sporting contest.
An army soldier assigned to a paratrooper unit who has not yet been qualified as a paratrooper.
The portion of the lower limb of a human that extends from the knee to the ankle.
A distance that a sailing vessel does without changing the sails from one side to the other.
An underlying instrument of a derivatives strategy.
An extension of a steam boiler downward, in the form of a narrow space between vertical plates, sometimes nearly surrounding the furnace and ash pit, and serving to support the boiler; called also water leg.
The ability of something to persist or succeed over a long period of time.
A stage of a journey, race etc.
A column, as a unit of length of text as laid out.
A rod-like protrusion from an inanimate object, such as a piece of furniture, supporting it from underneath.
Something that supports.
One of the two sides of a right triangle that is not the hypotenuse.
A limb or appendage that an animal uses for support or locomotion on land.
To remove the legs from an animal carcass.
To apply force using the leg (as in 'to leg a horse').
To put a series of three or more options strikes into the stock market.
To build legs onto a platform or stage for support.