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Backwash   Listen
noun
backwash  n.  
1.
The flow of water propelled backward by the propeller, paddle wheel, or oars of a boat.
2.
(Aeron.) The backward flowing air within the wash of an airplane, caused mostly by the engine.






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"Backwash" Quotes from Famous Books



... the river, churning the water into a yellowish, foaming mass; her captain bellowed and barked, her crew yelped, her passengers shouted; the flat boats and perogues moored along the bank, aroused from their lassitude, began to romp gaily in the swirl of her crazy backwash; ropes whined and rasped and groaned, the deck rattled hollowly with the tread of heavy feet and the shifting of boxes and barrels and crates; the gangplank came down with a crash,—and so the mighty hundred and fifty ton leviathan of the Wabash came ...
— Viola Gwyn • George Barr McCutcheon

... the first battalions of youth, so gay in their approach to war, so confident of victory, so careless of the dangers (which they did not know), came back maimed and mangled and blinded and wrecked, in the backwash of retreat, which presently became a spate through Belgium and the north of France, swamping over many cities and thousands of villages and many fields. Those young writing-men who had set out in a spirit of adventure went back to Fleet Street with a queer ...
— Now It Can Be Told • Philip Gibbs

... Huxley was born ten years after Waterloo, while the country was still in the backwash of the long-drawn Napoleonic wars. It was a time of material reconstruction and expansion, while social reconstruction lagged sadly and angrily behind. The year of his birth saw the first railway opened in England; it was seven years before electoral ...
— Thomas Henry Huxley - A Character Sketch • Leonard Huxley

... drifted in the direction of a rocky point on which a heavy surf was breaking. Here I thought once again to swim ashore. But suddenly we struck a rock. A large piece broke off the already small pan, and what was left swung round in the backwash, and started ...
— Adrift on an Ice-Pan • Wilfred T. Grenfell



Words linked to "Backwash" :   wave, consequence, race, airstream, aftermath, wake, upshot, outcome, slipstream, issue, result



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