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back-water

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Then, at the whaler's orders, the boat was swung round and the men held their oars ready to back-water.

We crept at dusk into a shaded back-water, where our keel almost touched the gravel bed.

With a desperate masterfulness he swept her from their back-water solitude out into the full current.

The double signal to back water came, and I pushed the lever bar up and down twice before I got my last signal to stop.

Instead of this, Galileo compelled the entire faculty to back water and dine on fricasseed crow.

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On this page you'll find 76 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to back-water, such as: abate, curb, curtail, decelerate, decrease, and diminish.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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