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Direction toward the rear
Answer for the clue "Direction toward the rear ", 8 letters:
rearward
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Word definitions for rearward in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rearward \Rear"ward`\ (r[=e]r"w[add]rd`-w[~e]rd), n. [Rear + ward.] The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard. Also used figuratively. --Shak.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1590s, from rear (adj.) + -ward .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ In addition, the rear suspension allows longitudinal rearward wheel travel in order to reduce tyre thump on poor road surfaces. ▪ In animals, digestive systems can either be of the forward or rearward types. ▪ It is then ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. toward the back or rear of something. adv. toward the back or rear of something. n. 1 The part that comes last or is situated in the rear; conclusion; wind-up. 2 The last troop; the rear of an army; a rear guard.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. directed or moving toward the rear; "a rearward glance"; "a rearward movement" [syn: reverse ] located in or toward the back or rear; "the chair's rear legs"; "the rear door of the plane"; "on the rearward side" [syn: rear(a) , rearward(a) ] n. direction ...
Usage examples of rearward.
He found out a few minutes later that Gaye had gone rearward and managed to lock herself in the hydro-dynamic pumping station with Ruff and Widget, the giant hamsters, and was refusing to let any gnome near them.
He cast a glance rearward where Captain Hull stood next to the helmsman, but the captain only smiled to himself.
A half-dozen Armengarian soldiers were fighting a rearward action as a larger number of goblins pursued them toward Arutha and his companions.
Someone was shouting a garbled command inside the green butterfly from between the two rearward elves.
Teeth crunched, blood gushed from flattened lips, and the fool tottered rearward and fell, whining and gurgling.
Hit in the torso and flung rearward, the foremost trooper smashed into the glass doors and dropped.
The mind screamed the order to the thought-guidance system, and the last of the decoys in the Rearward Defence Pod was jettisoned.
It pained me very much to find that the convoys sent at so much cost and risk round the Cape should so largely consist of rearward services and make so small an addition to our organised fighting units.
I meant him to overhaul the whole rearward administrative machine, paying particular attention to the great tank and aircraft repairing etablishments, as well as to the evergrowing railway, road, and port development which was now in progress.
Army Commander-in-Chief of detailed control of rearward administrative services and supply arrangements.
Third, with the Intendant-General, to expedite the reorganisation and modernisation of the rearward services of supply, movement, and repairs.
The Army Commander-in-Chief will specify to the Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief the targets and tasks which he requires to be performed, both in the preparatory attack on the rearward installations of the enemy and for air action during the progress of the battle.
The Air Officer Commanding-in-Chief would naturally lay aside all routine programmes and concentrate on bombing the rearward services of the enemy in the preparatory period.
The Axis army, skilfully evading various encircling manoeuvres, made good its retreat to a rearward line running southward from Gazala.
All the rearward services must develop a quality of stern, individual resistance.