The Collaborative International Dictionary
Back \Back\, n. [F. bac: cf. Arm. bag, bak a bark, D. bak tray, bowl.]
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A large shallow vat; a cistern, tub, or trough, used by brewers, distillers, dyers, picklers, gluemakers, and others, for mixing or cooling wort, holding water, hot glue, etc.
Hop back, Jack back, the cistern which receives the infusion of malt and hops from the copper.
Wash back, a vat in which distillers ferment the wort to form wash.
Water back, a cistern to hold a supply of water; esp. a small cistern at the back of a stove, or a group of pipes set in the fire box of a stove or furnace, through which water circulates and is heated.
A ferryboat. See Bac, 1.
Usage examples of "wash back".
These wash back and forth in shallow water on a sandy bottom, and are sometimes cast on the shore.
Josua dropped his bone spoon back into the soup bowl, and angrily watched the small eddies wash back and forth across the surface.
I let it wash back and forth through me while my breath came slowly back in one long sigh after another.
Something burned her lips, her cheeks, seared her eyes blind until only tears could wash back sight.
And spent days mostly sitting on the edge watching the waves far below flood up onto the stony beach, then wash back down.
We are caught up in the endless ebb and flow of tides that wash back and forth over our world?
Often the removed material entirely fills small, saucer-shaped valleys or low places, in which case it cannot wash back.
So my people are dying also, and you white men will sweep on across the land digging and killing and ripping up the long grass lands until finally you reach the waters in the west, and then you will wash back upon yourselves.
Aratap sighed, thoughtfully turned the photocube in his hand, and watched the blackness wash back like a tide of ink.