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Sway-backed   Listen
adjective
Sway-backed  adj.  Having the back hollow or sagged, whether naturally or as the result of injury or weakness; said of horses and other animals.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Sway-backed" Quotes from Famous Books



... a nervous constitution, hardly fitted for weathering many gales. So observed the grizzled visitor, aside. And, glancing about the poor room with its sway-backed double bed, he advised that she be sent off to a hospital without delay, and so smiled cheerily at the small patient and went chugging back to his handsome house on Washington Street, having pooh-poohed ...
— V. V.'s Eyes • Henry Sydnor Harrison



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