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skewbacks

skewbacks is the plural of skewback.

Meaning of skewback

Noun

skewback (plural skewbacks)

  1. The side of an arch; the course of masonry on the top of an abutment with a slope for the base of the arch to rest against.
    • The avalanche shelter itself consists of a series of heavily reinforced arches, supported by substantial piers on the cliff-side, and on skewbacks cut deep into the rock on the other.1943 March and April, “A British Avalanche Shelter”, in Railway Magazine, page 80

Questions about skewbacks

What is skewbacks the plural of?
Skewbacks is the plural of skewback.

Words near skewbacks in the dictionary

  1. skew-wift
  2. skewable
  3. skewampus
  4. Skewb
  5. skewback
  6. skewbacks
  7. skewbald
  8. skewbalds
  9. Skewbs
  10. skewcrop
  11. skewed

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