back rest

noun

I insisted on her taking my own rocker, while I fixed myself on the floor with a pillar for a back-rest.

When he got through and sounded I had to have the back-rest replaced in the seat to rest my aching back.

He found one of these with a back rest, and hurrying down to the water he soaked his handkerchief and carried it to her.

Push the back rest up till the butt of the turning tool (ground to a rounded point) rests against the concave grinding tool.

Pulling a box near the stove and using it as a back-rest, he gathered his blankets tightly round him and lit his pipe.

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