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• hollow back
  hollow back

  noun

  a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.
• hollow-back
  hollow-back

  noun

  pathol the nontechnical name for lordosis Compare hunchback

hollow back

American  

noun

Bookbinding.

1. a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.

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hollow-back British  

noun

1. pathol the nontechnical name for lordosis Compare hunchback

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Other Word Forms

• hollow-backed
  adjective

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I sneaked out a quart jar of peaches, some cold corn bread, and a few onions, and started up the hollow back of our house.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

From the description it can be identified with the almandine garnet, and the method of cutting this stone en cabochon, with hollow back in order to display its colour better is specially mentioned.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by William Gilbert

John equipped himself, and, with a lantern in hand, was soon seen guiding the senator's carriage towards a road that ran down in a hollow, back of his dwelling.

From Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe

If a book is sewn on tapes, and the back lined with leather, there is no serious objection to a carefully-made hollow back without bands.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

It is best in this case to use what is known as a hollow back.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke

Some, however, feature hollow-back irons that are a combination of hybrid and super game-improvement irons.

From Golf Digest ● Mar. 12, 2019