backenv.
/ˈbak(ə)n/ 1. transitive. To put, keep, or throw back; to throw behind, retard (in progress). Rare in modern literature.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > hinder in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > hinder or delay
bestayc1330
tarry1340
delaya1393
to put aback1450
to pull backa1470
retard1490
tarde1524
retary1526
to throw back1562
forslow1570
backward1594
detain1600
to set back1600
slug1605
retardate1613
tardya1616
taigle?1635
backen1649
remore1652
remorate1657
to cast back1671
to hold up1887
to knock back1945
1649 W. Blith Eng. Improver xxii. 131 Yet will it so backen them, that thou mayst lose a full halfe yeares growth in them.
1750 A. Hill Wks. (1753) IV. 361 His breast will be inflated, and majestically backen'd.
1853 F. W. Faber All for Jesus 55 A false doctrine..backens devotion.
1871 G. H. Napheys Prevention & Cure Dis. iii. iv. 720 Very hot vinegar applied..to a boil..will sometimes ‘backen’ it.
2. intransitive. To move or draw back. spec. = back v. 17.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > backward movement > move backwards [verb (intransitive)]
reversec1450
recoil1483
back1486
regressa1525
retire1542
flinch1578
retrograde1613
recur1616
retrocede1638
ravel1656
backen1748
regrede1800
regrade1811
retrogress1812
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > blow (of the wind) [verb (intransitive)] > blow from a particular quarter > change direction > in specific direction
wester1580
veer1582
souther1635
northera1665
backen1800
south1823
southern1859
back1860
1748 [implied in: Thompson Cast. Indol. ii. xlii With back'ning shunn'd his touch, for well he knew its power. (at backening n.)].
1800 Ann. Reg. 1798 (Otridge ed.) Chron. 88/2 The wind, nearly south,..backened towards the eastern board to about south-east.
1805 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Inferno I. xvii. 283 As a small vessel, back'ning out from land, Her station quits.
1904 E. Robins Magn. North ii. 181 Butts had backened a step behind the stove-pipe.
1909 Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 2/2 It [sc. a squall] blew for a few minutes violently; then backened back to the south-east.
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