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.
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hollow back
Americannoun
Bookbinding.
hollow-back
British
noun
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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
For cloth or half-cloth binding a hollow back is frequently glued on.
From Practical Bookbinding by Paul Adam
The strings a-tighten'd lik' to crack Athirt the canister's tin zide, Did reach, a glitt'rèn, zide by zide, Above the humstrum's hollow back.
From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes
A hollow back, as is well known, is more difficult to correct than a hollow chest, though both of them are abnormal.
From How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions by S. S. (Samuel Silas) Curry
Occasionally a dip in the hollow back of a mountain showed the sea beyond: there are few seas bluer than the blue Mediterranean can be, and this was one of its days.
From In the Tail of the Peacock by Isabel Savory
Some, however, feature hollow-back irons that are a combination of hybrid and super game-improvement irons.
From Golf Digest ● Mar. 12, 2019
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