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backed|bækt|
Forms: 5 backyd, 6 backt (Sc. bakkit), 6– backed.
[f. back n. and v. + -ed.]
1. adj. Provided with a back, having a back, background, or backing; used particularly in composition, e.g. broad-backed, pig-backed, hog-backed.
1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xii. xiii. (1495) 422 Scabbyd horses and sore backyd. 1530Palsgr. 442/2 This sworde is well backed. 1602Shakes. Ham. iii. ii. 397 It is back'd like a Weazell. 1670G. H. Hist. Cardinals i. iii. 78 Upon a back'd chair. 1716Lond. Gaz. No. 5395/4 One gray Nagg..somewhat Pigg-backed. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. ii. 48 Whitebeam with its great silver-backed leaves.
2. pple. and a. Supported at the back, seconded, abetted; betted on; mounted, broken in to the saddle; endorsed, printed on the back; moved or laid back. (See the verb.)
1589Pappe w. Hatchet (1844) 15 Art thou so backt that none dare blade it with thee? c1590J. Burel Queen's Entry, Far better bakkit nor ane laird. 1611Shakes. Cymb. v. i. 427 Great Iupiter, upon his Eagle back'd. 1692Ray Dissol. World Pref. (1732) 12 Well back'd by Divine Authority. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Rot, Take the Horse, if he be about four Years old and back'd. 1846Print. Appar. for Amateurs 42 When the paper is backed or has two impressions. |