hollow back

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.

hollow-back

noun

1. pathol the nontechnical name for lordosis Compare hunchback

Other Words From

• hollow-backed adjective

Example Sentences

Now he will keep along this side hill, for he may cross this hollow back and forth three or four times before we find him fast.

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The foil should then be floated on water, hollow back up, and blazing sealing–wax dropped into it to back it.

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I'll be ready here at twelve prompt—or not here, maybe, but down in the hollow back of your henhouse.

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To make a hollow back, a piece of stout paper is taken which measures once the length of the back and three times the width.

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One day Governor Kirkwood of Iowa visited our regiment and made a speech to us in a hollow back of our line.

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