'To back up' definitions:
Definition of 'To back up'
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- Back \Back\ (b[a^]k), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Backed (b[a^]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Backing.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To get upon the back of; to mount. [1913 Webster]
- I will back him [a horse] straight. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To place or seat upon the back. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- Great Jupiter, upon his eagle backed, Appeared to me. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To drive or force backward; to cause to retreat or recede; as, to back oxen. [1913 Webster]
- 4. To make a back for; to furnish with a back; as, to back books. [1913 Webster]
- 5. To adjoin behind; to be at the back of. [1913 Webster]
- A garden . . . with a vineyard backed. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- The chalk cliffs which back the beach. --Huxley. [1913 Webster]
- 6. To write upon the back of; as, to back a letter; to indorse; as, to back a note or legal document. [1913 Webster]
- 7. To support; to maintain; to second or strengthen by aid or influence; as, to back a friend. "The Parliament would be backed by the people." --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- Have still found it necessary to back and fortify their laws with rewards and punishments. --South. [1913 Webster]
- The mate backed the captain manfully. --Blackw. Mag. [1913 Webster]
- 8. To bet on the success of; -- as, to back a race horse. [1913 Webster]
- To back an anchor (Naut.), to lay down a small anchor ahead of a large one, the cable of the small one being fastened to the crown of the large one.
- To back the field, in horse racing, to bet against a particular horse or horses, that some one of all the other horses, collectively designated "the field", will win.
- To back the oars, to row backward with the oars.
- To back a rope, to put on a preventer.
- To back the sails, to arrange them so as to cause the ship to move astern.
- To back up, to support; to sustain; as, to back up one's friends.
- To back a warrant (Law), is for a justice of the peace, in the county where the warrant is to be executed, to sign or indorse a warrant, issued in another county, to apprehend an offender.
- To back water (Naut.), to reverse the action of the oars, paddles, or propeller, so as to force the boat or ship backward. [1913 Webster]
Words containing 'To back up'
- Back,
- Backed,
- Backing,
- Backs,
- To back down,
- To back out,
- back down,
- back off,
- back out,
- back to back,
- back up,
- back-to-back,
- Back Mountain,
- Back and forth,
- Back blocks,
- Back charge,
- Back charges,
- Back door,
- Back eccentric,
- Back filling,
- Back pressure,
- Back rest,
- Back slang,
- Back stairs,
- Back step,
- Back stream,
- Full back,
- Half back,
- Hark back,
- Hop back,
- Jack back,
- Paneled back,
- Pump Back,
- Quarter back,
- Skew back,
- Snap back,
- Spring back,
- Switch back,
- Throw back,
- To back a rope,
- To back a warrant,
- To back against the field,
- To back an anchor,
- To back and fill,
- To back the field,
- To back the oars,
- To back the sails,
- To back water,
- To be on one's back,
- To bear back,
- To break the back,
- To bring back,
- To call back,
- To draw back,
- To fall back,
- To fall back on,
- To get back,
- To give back,
- To go back on,
- To hang back,
- To hark back,
- To keep back,
- To put back,
- To see the back of,
- To snap back,
- To throw back,
- To turn back,
- To turn the back,
- To turn the back on,
- Wash back,
- Water back,
- Watteau back,
- Window back,
- answer back,
- back and fill,
- back away,
- back brace,
- back breaker,
- back burner,
- back channel,
- back circle,
- back country,
- back end,
- back entrance,
- back exercise,
- back fire,
- back judge,
- back matter,
- back number,
- back of beyond,
- back pack,
- back porch,
- back room,
- back saw,
- back scratching,
- back seat,
- back spread,
- back street,
- back talk,
- back tooth,
- back way,
- beat back,
- bounce back,
- bring back,
- buy back,
- call back,
- carry back,
- ceding back,
- choke back,
- come back,
- come back at,
- coming back,
- cut back,
- date back,
- die back,
- double back,
- draw back,
- drive back,
- drop back,
- fall back,
- fat back,
- feed back,
- fight back,
- financial backing,
- flanker back,
- flash back,
- force back,
- from way back,
- get back,
- get back at,
- give back,
- go back,
- go back on,
- go back over,
- hang back,
- hold back,
- keep back,
- kick back,
- knock back,
- lean back,
- look back,
- move back,
- pat on the back,
- pay back,
- paying back,
- play back,
- pull back,
- push back,
- put back,
- rear back,
- relation back,
- roll back,
- running back,
- send back,
- set back,
- shrink back,
- sink back,
- sit back,
- slide back,
- slip back,
- stand back,
- strike back,
- take back,
- talk back,
- think back,
- thrust back,
- toss back,
- trim back,
- turn back,
- win back,
- Back Mountain, PA,
- Back-fire,
- Back-firing,
- Behind one's back,
- Broken-backed,
- Bunch-backed,
- Camel-backed,
- Diamond-back,
- Hog's-back,
- Huckle-backed,
- Lute-backed,
- Pump Back, OK,
- Razor-backed,
- Roach-backed,
- Round-backed,
- Saddle-backed,
- Stiff-backed,
- Sway-backed,
- To claw one on the back,
- To fall back upon,
- To lie on one's back,
- To put one's back up,
- To take the back track,
- To turn the back on one,
- To turn the back upon,
- Warty-back,
- back-and-forth,
- back-blast,
- back-channel,
- back-formation,
- back-geared,
- back-number,
- break one's back,
- call-back,
- dust-back,
- high-backed,
- hollow-back,
- ladder-back,
- ladder-backed,
- laid-back,
- lobster-backed,
- low-backed,
- move back and forth,
- pig-a-back,
- set-back,
- spiny-backed,
- straight-backed,
- to get one's back up,
- Mackerel-back sky,
- black-backed gull,
- blue-back mullet,
- broken-backed hogged,
- dust-back pitch,
- ladder-back chair,
- leather-backed tortoise,
- mortgage-backed security,
- paper-back book,
- red-backed lemming,
- red-backed mouse,
- red-backed sandpiper,
- Back-acting steam engine,
- Back-action steam engine,
- eastern red-backed salamander,
- great black-backed gull,
- western red-backed salamander,
- red-coated lobster-backed,
- arduous backbreaking back-breaking grueling gruelling hard heavy laborious labourious punishing slavish strenuous toilsome