Showing results for back rest. Search instead for blackjack reste.

back rest

British

noun

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

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

"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

Its ergonomic back rest caught the wind to perform one last spin.

From New York Times • Jul. 10, 2023

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

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

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023