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单词 backing and filling
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backing and filling
4. Motion in a backward direction, esp. of the wind in a direction opposed to the sun's. backing and filling (see back v. 16b). U.S.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [noun] > wind with reference to direction > change of direction > specific
scant1595
veering1611
backing1686
westing1834
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > [noun] > movement back and forth
course and recourse1461
backing and filling1777
come-and-go1794
to and fro1847
toing and froing1847
va-et-vient1919
the world > the earth > water > body of water > [noun] > accumulation of water behind barrier > forming a head
heading up1873
backing1884
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. i. 25 Who foretold them by the Winds backing to the Sun..i.e. opposing its course.
1777 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. (1906) XLII. 315 He was then order'd..to Stillwarter, then ordered from Stillwarter to Benington... This in the Salers Frase is Backing & filling, makes but poor way a head.
1854 N.Y. Herald 15 June There has been so much backing and filling, not only upon the Cuban question, but upon every other.
1869 R. Semmes Mem. Service Afloat 255 The reader need no longer wonder at the backing and filling of the Iroquois around the little Sumter.
1874 F. G. D. Bedford Sailor's Pocket Bk. iv. 75 From West to South-West, South, and South-East, the change is called backing.
1884 Ingersoll in Harper's Mag. 876/2 Rivers would be able to dispose of their water in the full season without its backing up.
attributive.1903 S. Clapin New Dict. Amer. 31 A backing and filling policy is one which is shilly-shally, trifling, irresolute.1949 Amer. Speech 24 172 Tickers slowed down and a series of backing and filling movements made the pattern for the day.
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