'Back filling' definitions:
Definition of 'Back filling'
From: GCIDE
- Back \Back\, a.
- 1. Being at the back or in the rear; distant; remote; as, the back door; back settlements. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Being in arrear; overdue; as, back rent. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Moving or operating backward; as, back action. [1913 Webster]
- Back blocks, Australian pastoral country which is remote from the seacoast or from a river. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
- Back charges, charges brought forward after an account has been made up.
- Back filling (Arch.), the mass of materials used in filling up the space between two walls, or between the inner and outer faces of a wall, or upon the haunches of an arch or vault.
- Back pressure. (Steam Engine) See under Pressure.
- Back rest, a guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work, to steady it in turning.
- Back slang, a kind of slang in which every word is written or pronounced backwards; as, nam for man.
- Back stairs, stairs in the back part of a house; private stairs. Also used adjectively. See Back stairs, Backstairs, and Backstair, in the Vocabulary.
- Back step (Mil.), the retrograde movement of a man or body of men, without changing front.
- Back stream, a current running against the main current of a stream; an eddy.
- To take the back track, to retrace one's steps; to retreat. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Back filling'
From: GCIDE
- Filling \Fill"ing\, n.
- 1. That which is used to fill a cavity or any empty space, or to supply a deficiency; as, filling for a cavity in a tooth, a depression in a roadbed, the space between exterior and interior walls of masonry, the pores of open-grained wood, the space between the outer and inner planks of a vessel, etc. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The woof in woven fabrics. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Brewing) Prepared wort added to ale to cleanse it. [1913 Webster]
- Back filling. (Arch.) See under Back, a. [1913 Webster]