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-backed
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a word derived from
hollow back.
Example Sentences
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She was a slinking, hollow-backed, quick-fanged creature, still rib-thin from the sickness that had come of eating a poison-bait; a beast shunned by her own kind—a coward, a murderess even of her own whelps.
From Nomads of the North A Story of Romance and Adventure under the Open Stars by James Oliver Curwood
The next morning, when I looked out, I saw the hollow-backed bay between the Varnum spruces, and Ethan Frome, throwing back his worn bearskin, made room for me in the sleigh at his side.
From Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
He is generally a hollow-backed, pot-bellied creature, about the size of a yearling calf, with ungainly, sloping haunches, and long, coarse hair.
From A Walk from London to John O'Groat's by Elihu Burritt
The portable theatres are invariably wooden and are carried "knocked down" in large wagons drawn by hollow-backed, thick-legged Flemish horses.
From Vanished towers and chimes of Flanders by George Wharton Edwards
A child's book costing three dollars will in a short time become loose, hollow-backed, and the plate illustrations will fall out.
From Literature for Children by Orton Lowe
