Read full poem →His worth might be sample for a’;
And strang an’ respectfu’s his backing,
The maist o’ the lairds wi’ him stand;
Dictionary Entry
To go in the reverse direction.
In a Sentence
“the train backed into the station; the horse refuses to back”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. backingaway backingbacking financialbacking strong
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Poetry examples for “backing”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →And it's “All clear aft” on the old trail, our own trail, the out trail,
We're backing down on the Long Trail -- the trail that is always new.
Read full poem →travelled to and fro along its spile-pier, jerking sections of iron into
place, snorting and backing and grunting as an elephant grunts in the
timber-yard. Riveters by the hundred swarmed about the lattice side-work
Read full poem →And the mean folk as owed and never paid me,
And backing losers; and the local bucks
Egging me on with whiskies while I bragged