backlins
Americanadverb
Etymology
Origin of backlins
First recorded before 1000; Middle English bakling, Old English on bæcling “backwards”; see origin at back 1, -ling 2 -s 1
Example Sentences
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To gae backlins, to walk backwards, like a ropemaker.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. by Leighton, Alexander
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