Crossword clues for backed
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Back \Back\ (b[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Backed (b[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Backing.]
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To get upon the back of; to mount.
I will back him [a horse] straight.
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To place or seat upon the back. [R.]
Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed, Appeared to me.
--Shak. To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen.
To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books.
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To adjoin behind; to be at the back of.
A garden . . . with a vineyard backed.
--Shak.The chalk cliffs which back the beach.
--Huxley. To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document.
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To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. ``The Parliament would be backed by the people.''
--Macaulay.Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments.
--South.The mate backed the captain manfully.
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To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse.
To back an anchor (Naut.), to lay down a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one.
To back the field, in horse racing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated ``the field'', will win.
To back the oars, to row backward with the oars.
To back a rope, to put on a preventer.
To back the sails, to arrange them so as to cause the ship to move astern.
To back up, to support; to sustain; as, to back up one's friends.
To back a warrant (Law), is for a justice of the peace, in the county where the warrant is to be executed, to sign or indorse a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender.
To back water (Naut.), to reverse the action of the oars, paddles, or propeller, so as to force the boat or ship backward.
Backed \Backed\ (b[a^]kt), a. Having a back; fitted with a back; as, a backed electrotype or stereotype plate. Used in composition; as, broad-backed; hump-backed.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 vb. (en-past of: back) Etymology 2
1 (context obsolete slang English) Put on one's back; killed; rendered dead. 2 (context in combination English) Having specified type of back. 3 (context in combination English) Having specified type of backing.
WordNet
Usage examples of "backed".
During the night, Adler and I had already interviewed the homeowners whose properties backed up to the murder site, but no one had seen or heard anything until the police arrived.
Nadon got up from die forest floor, stepped onto the path, and backed away from Alima, hoping to lure him a meter.
Judging his distance the anchorman crouched, then leapt onto the jetty, wrapping his rope round a bollard while the oarsmen backed water.
Lena backed out, claiming too much work, so Andi was left to endure it alone.
Shockingly it seemed as though her animalistic regression momentarily frightened the dogs, and they each backed off long enough to let Rayven gain her feet.
The low animalistic sounds coming from her throat sounded alien to her, but she was thankful for it when the alpha slowly backed down before her.
Now, more than ever, she needed to be the warrior Kelsey , the woman who backed down to no one, anu not just because Bill Winslow was once again after her life.
Shortly Alfred backed off her and got to his feet, leaving her asprawl, carelessly naked, her pale skin flushed pink throughout, eyes closed, smile pursing upper lips whilst semen glittered between lower.
Then while the Atabeg stood trembling and uncertain, at a loss for the first and only time of his whole wild career, du Courcey backed toward the door, holding his captive, who neither cried out nor struggled.
The slave backed, holding knife in teeth and lashing the barbed shaft to his arm with the pennant.
Clive got the car out and backed it down the drive, with Beauvais slumped low in the front seat.
She had Mavis backed into a corner and was giving her the finer points on how to leap a Beltane fire.
LED FOR FIVE MILES through as wild a country as I ever seen outside the Humbolts, and then I seen a cabin ahead, on a wide benchland and that backed agen a steep mountain slope.
He screamed in sonar, bubbles pouring out of his blowhole and backed up, his tail flailing wildly.
She backed away casually, leaned against the outer door as far from Nevis as she could get, and considered the situation while Anittas removed his gloves and the shards of his ruined suit and slid the bluesteel fingers of his right hand into the waiting computer plugs.