What is "scaled back"

Usage examples of "scaled back".

He gestured to the body of the dragon, now indeed some three-quarters buried-though the wings still twitched feebly now and then, perhaps so keeping clear the scaled back that they could still see through the dispersing fog.

His gloved hand touched the small of her scaled back as he leaned close to get a look.

Raf's line of vision, limited by the door, framed a portion of scaled back, as it looked, immediately below him.

Orlgaun wheeled again, and Manshoon shook where he sat on the broad, scaled back from the aftereffects of the mighty disjunction he had worked.

Ilberd saw Elber Lionstone tumbling along the dragon's scaled back, his face a mask of pain and his frantically stabbing dagger rebounding from its scales in futility.

The planetary defense system was scaled back drastically, turned to meteoroid destruction, where at least it saw some use.

I scaled back up until the tower re-emerged on the edge of the display.

We can now be sure of that outcome, simply by continuing our current digging effort, scaled back a bit so we can stand it.

The planet-splitting beam from the original Death Star has also been scaled back and multiple sites for it have been created.

He rode silently, looking neither right nor left, keeping his eyes fastened on the green-scaled back of Amity, his hipp.

By the mid-1990s NSA had scaled back hiring to only about 100 new employees a year.

The wall split and cracked, revealing a spiny, scaled back arching and pushing upward.