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Backhand   /bˈækhˌænd/   Listen
adjective
Backhand  adj.  
1.
Sloping from left to right; said of handwriting.
2.
Backhanded; indirect; oblique. (R.)


noun
Backhand  n.  
1.
A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
2.
(Sports) The stroke of a ball with a racket or paddle, in which head of the racket starts from the side of the body opposite to that of the arm in which the racket is held, and proceeds forward to meet the ball. Contrasted with forehand.





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"Backhand" Quotes from Famous Books



... in addressing the envelopes at his father's library desk. Five of them were scrawled in a heavy backhand, with the aid of his mother's broad, stub pen, and five more in his normal handwriting. He finished the others in a variety of huge pothooks with blackly crossed "T's" and dotted "I's," and viewed the result of his labors ...
— A Son of the City - A Story of Boy Life • Herman Gastrell Seely
... For some brief seconds they gazed upon him stricken into silence as with a physical blow, then with a fierce exclamation the Sioux snatched a rifle from the cave side and quicker than words can tell fired straight at the upright accusing figure. But quicker yet was Jerry's panther-spring. With a backhand he knocked Cameron flat, out of range. Cameron dropped to the floor ...
— The Patrol of the Sun Dance Trail • Ralph Connor


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