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back rest

British  

noun

  1. a support for the back of something

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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"We'll go back, rest up. I believe I won the fight but I'm not going to sit and cry and make excuses. We'll run it again," Fury added.

From BBC May 18, 2024

When he made progress, like the time he was able to pull his head forward and put it back against a back rest, he repeated it, over and over, for 40 minutes.

From Washington Times Jul. 16, 2016

The ones in the front fly and the ones in the back rest and then they change over.

From The Wall Street Journal Oct. 14, 2015

The Lowell also provided my back rest, as I sat on the 63rd Street sidewalk on the night of Oct.

From New York Times Dec. 8, 2011

Later I cut a blackgum twig to chew on and settled myself comfortable on the ground with the stump for a back rest.

From "Cold Sassy Tree" by Olive Ann Burns

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