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Backache   /bˈækˌeɪk/   Listen
Backache

noun
1.
An ache localized in the back.





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"Backache" Quotes from Famous Books



... only became hard; they became quick and accurate, and Nance got used to the heat and the smell, and she almost got used to the backache. It was sitting still and being silent that hurt her more than anything else. Mr. Lavinski did not encourage conversation,—it distracted the workers,—and Nance's exuberance, which at first found vent in all sorts of jokes and capers, soon died for ...
— Calvary Alley • Alice Hegan Rice
... with the constant pumping of the pedals the knee is required to raise too great a weight; this bears upon the body just below the back of the hips, giving backache; often more serious troubles. I wouldn't wear a skirt. I had one torn off me by the wheel; but I rode with them long enough to give a just comparison of the merits of ...
— Social Life - or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society • Maud C. Cooke
... farther up the river, and the portage is a mile and a half long. Phil and I call it the backache portage," replied Katherine. ...
— A Countess from Canada - A Story of Life in the Backwoods • Bessie Marchant


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