Vocabulary : Back door to Backboard

Back door : A door in the back part of a building; hence, an indirect way.
Back fire : A fire started ahead of a forest or prairie fire to burn only against the wind, so that when the two fires meet both must go out for lack of fuel. ;; A premature explosion in the cylinder of a gas or oil engine during the exhaust or the compression stroke, tending to drive the piston in a direction reverse to that in which it should travel; also, an explosion in the exhaust passages of such ah engine.
Back stairs : Stairs in the back part of a house, as distinguished from the front stairs; hence, a private or indirect way.
Backarack : A kind of wine made at Bacharach on the Rhine. ;; See Bacharach.
Backare : Stand back! give place! -- a cant word of the Elizabethan writers, probably in ridicule of some person who pretended to a knowledge of Latin which he did not possess. ;; Same as Baccare.

Backband : The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.
Backbite : To wound by clandestine detraction; to censure meanly or spitefully (an absent person); to slander or speak evil of (one absent). ;; To censure or revile the absent.
Backbiter : One who backbites; a secret calumniator or detractor.
Backbiting : Secret slander; detraction.
Backboard : A board which supports the back wen one is sitting; ;; A board serving as the back part of anything, as of a wagon. ;; A thin stuff used for the backs of framed pictures, mirrors, etc. ;; A board attached to the rim of a water wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats or paddies into the interior of the wheel. ;; A board worn across the back to give erectness to the figure.

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