Crossword clues for backwater
backwater
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Backwater \Back"wa`ter\, n. [Back, a. or adv. + -water. ]
Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an opposing current, or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer or river channel, or across a river bar.
An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused by an obstruction.
Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by the paddle wheels of a steamer.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
alt. 1 The water held back by a dam or other obstruction 2 (context idiomatic English) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc. 3 A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water n. 1 The water held back by a dam or other obstruction 2 (context idiomatic English) A remote place; somewhere that remains unaffected by new events, progresses, ideas, etc. 3 A rowing stroke in which the oar is pushed forward to stop the boat; see back water vb. 1 To row or paddle a backwater stroke. 2 (context idiomatic English) To vacillate on a long-held position.
WordNet
n. a body of water that was created by a flood or tide or by being held or forced back by a dam; "the bayous and backwaters are breeding grounds for mosquitos"
any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress
Wikipedia
Backwater or Backwaters may refer to:
"Backwater" is a song recorded by the Meat Puppets. It was released as the first single from the group's album Too High to Die. The single was released in three versions: one promo CDS and two singles. It is the Meat Puppets most successful single. The highest position in the US was No. 47 in Billboard Hot 100, No. 2 on the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart, No. 11 on the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks chart and No. 31 on the Billboard Mainstream Top 40 chart. The 3 track single features a cover of the Feederz.
A backwater is a part of a river in which there is little or no current. It refers either to a branch of a main river, which lies alongside it and then rejoins it, or to a body of water in a main river, backed up by an obstruction such as the tide or a dam.
Backwater was an American jazz fusion band, formed in Mobile, Alabama and active in the 1970s. The group was formed by Robby Catlin and Scott Pettersen, with Larry Hardin and Trippe Thomason rounding out the original lineup. The quartet formed in 1975, playing clubs and working as session musicians in Birmingham, Alabama. The group's first album, Backwater (1976), sold well throughout the Southeast and received radio airplay, leading to touring stints with B.B. King, Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris. Lineup changes plagued the band for much of the rest of their career. Pettersen and Catlin, alongside Tom and Myra Woodruff, produced one more recording (1978's North of the Mason-Dixon and the Heart of Dixie) before splitting as the decade closed. The band's original members reunited in 1997 for a one-off "20 year reunion" concert.
Backwater is the debut studio album by American jazz band Backwater. Produced by Tom Nist and the band themselves, the album was released in September 1976. Largely recorded at New London Recording in the previous months, the five players worked as session musicians in exchange for studio time. The album is split into two halves, a studio side and a live side; the live side was recorded at Birmingham nightclub The Midnight's Voice.
The record proved successful, gaining airplay throughout the Southeast. In 1997, the album was remastered and released on compact disc.
Usage examples of "backwater".
The Aedile had been exiled to this tiny backwater city after the triumph of the Committee for Public Safety because he had spoken against the destruction of the records of past ages.
As for the professor, he drove back to London, saw a handful of patients at his consulting rooms, performed a delicate and difficult brain operation at the hospital and returned to his elegant home in a backwater of Belgravia to eat his dinner and then go to his study to catch up on his post.
I was able to hang on this long, even as a second-rate legman in a backwater Tri-Di area.
Shipyards and licensors and such like to keep records, you know, and records from many worlds tend to be accessible, even in backwaters like Maracanda.
The engineer Vauban dammed the river here and sent it different ways, to make a moat around the fortified town: downstream of his beautiful bridge is a weir and a millstream and backwaters, and crooked streets through the seventeenth-century huddle, and the city fathers are busy restoring a nostalgic atmosphere with cobblestones and antique gas lamps, and rather pathetic corners of greenery.
Martinville a backwater, then Natchitoches would by comparison seem the end of the world, a dead-water slough stagnant and without amenities.
The mayor, now in her second term, was a Sapphist In most respects, therefore, it was a typical backwater town.
Then, rounding the last turn before home, he was stopped by the startling chaos before him that blocked the road and transformed his dull backwater neighborhood into the scene of a natural disaster: there were trucks and cars and monster RVs and a couple of open semitrailers and a ragtag army of intent good-looking people of all ages in baggy shorts and baseball caps, many clutching hand walkie-talkies as if the hard gray rectangles were bricks of precious metal, all moving earnestly among the tables loaded with good-looking food, the folding chairs, the cables, the light stands, with a self-important arrogance, an air of imperviousness, of brute inevitability, because, goddamn it, they were members of a goddamn movie crew.
They had thankfully left the shrews in a backwater tributary of Broadstream.
She was herself the daughter of such a squire, and her work is inspired by a love for the simple and backwater provincial life of her class of people and a devotion to the Slavophil ideals of family unity and paternal authority.
It was a suburban backwater, half its units empty, the rest unobtrusive in their telemarketing and direct mail and small-scale manufactures.
The details of the first half of his cover story were not hard to memorize, nondescript assignments in various backwaters.
But Comus had lived too thoroughly in the centre of things to regard life in a backwater as anything else than stagnation, and stagnation while one is young he justly regarded as an offence against nature and reason, in keeping with the perverted mockery that sends decrepit invalids touring painfully about the world and shuts panthers up in narrow cages.
Dipping his sculls, he shot the skiff into the darkness of the backwater.
He studied the steeply sloping streambed, dropping from that narrow gap to the small backwater at his feet.