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back-board, n.|ˈbækbɔəd|
[f. back n.]
†1. = larboard. Only in OE.: see babord.
2. A board placed at, or forming, the back of anything, e.g. of a picture, a cart, a boat.
1761Brit. Mag. II. 613 Artfully concealed behind the back-board of Perrott's picture. 1769Falconer Mar. Dict., Back-Board, a piece of board of a semicircular figure, placed transversly in the after-part of a boat, and serving the passengers to recline against. 1877Tinsley's Mag. Aug. 220 Wife and family in the ramshackle tax-cart, the little ones ‘creening’ over the back-board.
3. A board attached to the rim of a water-wheel to prevent the water from running off the floats into the interior of the wheel.
1864Webster cites Nicholson.
4. A board held or strapped across the back to straighten the figure.
1794–1801E. Darwin Zoon. III. 143 Methods of confining or directing the growth of young people..such as back-boards. 1801M. Edgeworth Fr. Governess (1831) 176 Her person had undergone all the tortures of back-boards, collars, stocks, dumb-bells. 1880J. South Househ. Surg. (ed. 4) 332 Another abominable contrivance called a back-board..by which the girl's arms were trussed behind her, in much the same way as the wings of a roast fowl.
5. ‘That part of the lathe which is sustained by the four legs, and which sustains the pillars that support the puppet-bar.’ Weale Dict. Terms 1849.
Add:[2.] b. Basketball. A board positioned immediately behind the basket, which forms part of the playing area and from which the ball may rebound into the basket to score.
1929L. E. Anderson Basketball for Women viii. 74 The ball strikes the backboard at an angle and rebounds into the basket. 1935Encycl. Sports 63/2 Free throws are given as penalties for fouls, and these are taken from a position behind the free-throw line, 9 ft. in front of the backboard. 1957Encycl. Brit. III. 181/2 The backboard may be of two types: rectangular, 6 ft. horizontally and 4 ft. vertically, or fan-shaped, 54 in. wide with a 29-in. radius from centre base to top. It may be of any rigid material with flat front surface. 1960J. Updike Rabbit, Run 3 Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with a backboard bolted to it. 1986Basketball Monthly Aug./Sept. 11/3 If you post up too low, you'll find your baseline moves put you behind the backboard.
c. Lawn Tennis. A wall or other surface against which a player can practise shots. orig. U.S.
1935H. I. Driver Tennis for Teachers xviii. 84 The backboard is the best opponent a player can have, because it always returns the ball. 1964World Tennis June 30/2 You are now sufficiently advanced to play a game against the backboard. Ibid. 31/1 After several backboard sessions..you can get further forehand practice by having someone play the ball to you. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 497 Facilities: 18 courts..ball machines; practice alleys; backboard.
d. Ice-Hockey. Any of the boards surrounding the area behind each goal. Usu. in pl.
1968Boston Globe 3 Jan. 47/3 This is an important consideration in Madison Square Garden where there is a comparatively small area behind the nets and the puck takes..some bounces off the backboards. 1978Winnipeg Free Press 25 Sept. 53/5 Hammarstrom slipped behind the Winnipeg defence to put away a rebound off the backboards.
e. Hockey. A board placed at ground level across the back of the goal.
1987Guardian 13 Apr. 27/2 A rare attacking sortie gave the patient Americans their chance and Donnelly's shot clattered the back board. |