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Definition of the day : « back-water »
- As in slow : verb delay, restrict
- The cleansing and clearing a harbour by back-water, or otherwise.
- Extract from : « The Sailor's Word-Book » by William Henry Smyth
- They had reached the counter current—the back-water—and were satisfied.
- Extract from : « The Trail of the Goldseekers » by Hamlin Garland
- The last rip of the tide is through the Straits of Carquinez into the back-water of Suisun.
- Extract from : « California » by Mary Austin
- There could never be any life equal to the old life, in the back-water into which she had drifted.
- Extract from : « Elsie Inglis » by Eva Shaw McLaren
- He'll swamp you with cracked ice and back-water if you don't get out of the way.
- Extract from : « The Gentle Grafter » by O. Henry
- With a desperate masterfulness he swept her from their back-water solitude out into the full current.
- Extract from : « What Will People Say? » by Rupert Hughes
- The brush grew high around the pond formed by the back-water and made a perfect shelter.
- Extract from : « The Dude Wrangler » by Caroline Lockhart
- I could now find vent for my “back-water,” since the empty cask would serve for that, in one case as well as the other.
- Extract from : « The Boy Tar » by Mayne Reid
- This back-water is a dangerous place to break down in, as the men on the Road know well.
- Extract from : « From Sea to Sea » by Rudyard Kipling
- From there he drifted to the old "Amberson Block," but this was fallen into a back-water; business had stagnated here.
- Extract from : « The Magnificent Ambersons » by Booth Tarkington