What is "backwashes"

Usage examples of "backwashes".

In spite of the stationary eddies or momentary backwashes we observe here and there, its stream moves in a definite direction, ever swelling and broadening.

The disturbances overhead were reflected in currents and backwashes along the bottom which the Hunter could feel but which were quite unable to shift the half-buried mass of metal.

But these calls to what had once been remote, unvisited backwashes were becoming increasingly important.

All of these things are related to the Coriolis, the reeling gyroscopic effect of the earth’s spin that creates wind and flow of weather, the countering backwashes and eddies of storms.

I do not know what you expected to findin Krondor, young sir, but in the backwashes of war many things happen.