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backways

backways is the plural of backway.

Meaning of backway

Noun

backway (plural backways)

  1. A back alley.
    • Gliding along the silent streets, and holding his course where they were darkest and most gloomy, the man who had left the widow's house crossed London Bridge, and arriving in the City, plunged into the backways, lanes, and courts […]1841 February–November, Charles Dickens, “Barnaby Rudge. (please specify the chapter number)”, in Master Humphrey’s Clock, London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC

Questions about backways

What is backways the plural of?
Backways is the plural of backway.

Words near backways in the dictionary

  1. backwatering
  2. backwaterish
  3. backwaters
  4. backwatery
  5. backway
  6. backways
  7. backweight
  8. backweights
  9. Backwell
  10. backwind
  11. backwinded

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