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Broken-backed   /brˈoʊkən-bækt/   Listen
Broken-backed

adjective
1.
Having the spine damaged.  "A broken-backed old horse"
2.
(of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth.
3.
(of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end.  Synonym: hogged.





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"Broken-backed" Quotes from Famous Books



... to lock you up! Recollect, you are not of age, Aileen. After he has had time to force you into a marriage with your broken-backed old lover. After he has had time to poison your ...
— Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter • Lawrence L. Lynch
... been brought over from Scotland when veritably young,—some months or so; had then been finished in the new-fangled American free schools, and had come up in the counting-room, the day of the accident, equipped to feed his broken-backed father, with knowledge enough to be a bookkeeper, and little enough pride to be a messenger. Only, he had no spirit of adventure to fit him for a supercargo,—even that brushed too close upon the protagonist for him; and so he stayed upon his office stool. While other clerks ...
— Pirate Gold • Frederic Jesup Stimson
... once a blinding flash would come over him the lines of his sermon would run together, the fresh manuscript would shrivel like a dead leaf, and the rows of hard-hearted theology on the shelves before him, and the broken-backed Concordance, and the Holy Book itself, would fade away as he gave himself up to the ...
— The Guardian Angel • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


Words linked to "Broken-backed" :   bulging, ship, damaged, convex, unfit, hogged


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