hollow back


nounBookbinding.
  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.

Other words from hollow back

  • hollow-backed, adjective

Words Nearby hollow back

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How to use hollow back in a sentence

  • 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.

    Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper | Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
  • The foil should then be floated on water, hollow back up, and blazing sealing–wax dropped into it to back it.

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

    Thankful's Inheritance | Joseph C. Lincoln
  • 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.

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

    With Fire and Sword | Samuel H. M. Byers

British Dictionary definitions for hollow-back

hollow-back

noun
  1. pathol the nontechnical name for lordosis Compare hunchback

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