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
About seven yards farther on he managed with difficulty to crawl up the incline on all fours, then he followed the edge of the hollow back to the place where the horse should have been.
From Master and Man by Aylmer Maude
The spot chosen was in a hollow, back of a gently rising slope.
From Battery E in France 149th Field Artillery, Rainbow (42nd) Division by Frederic R. Kilner
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.
From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Noel Rooke
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.
From Fifty Years a Hunter and Trapper Autobiography, experiences and observations of Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock during his fifty years of hunting and trapping. by Eldred Nathaniel Woodcock
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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