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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



... by icy shock. She yanked the cab door shut and shouted something to the driver. The cab took off with a rush that left Feldman in a backwash of ...
— Badge of Infamy • Lester del Rey
... head bent low against the backwash of dust, looked at Mary V. Words were useless, worse ...
— Skyrider • B. M. Bower
... to the shore where she waited, came a canoe headed upriver. Two men were in it, paddling sturdily, taking advantage of eddies and backwash. Fresh from the city as she was, she felt a thrill of sudden terror; the men were Indians and wore the full regalia of ...
— Joan of Arc of the North Woods • Holman Day
... with his three satellites twenty minutes later, the backwash of the crowd still eddied and ...
— Boy Woodburn - A Story of the Sussex Downs • Alfred Ollivant
... trolling outside the heavy backwash from the cliffs. MacRae knew them both. Peter Ferrara was in one, Long Tom Spence in the other. They did not ride those gray-green ridges for pleasure, nor drop sidling into those deep watery hollows for joy of motion. They were out ...
— Poor Man's Rock • Bertrand W. Sinclair
... tilted endways and went down, but as on the second revolution we swept toward a jutting fang of quartz I made a fierce effort, because here the stream had piled a few yards of shingle against the foot of the rock. The craft yielded to the impulse and drove lurching among the backwash. Then there followed a sickening crash. Water poured in deep over her depressed side as she swayed downward and over, and the next moment, with one hand on the ragged quartz and another gripping Grace's arm, I was struggling in the stream. Fortunately the dress fabric held, and my ...
— Lorimer of the Northwest • Harold Bindloss
... were soon confronted by a terrifying rush of water at a spot where three arms of the river met with such force that the clashing waters shot up in the air, forming a wave some 40 or 50 ft. high with a foaming crest. The backwash from this great wave was so violent against the rocky banks of the river—very narrow there—that it was quite impossible for the canoe, even empty, to be let down ...
— Across Unknown South America • Arnold Henry Savage Landor
... whither the backwash of the flood had borne me? To the knoll which is the eastern boundary-mark of the village of Pateera! No other place. I drew the dead man up on the grass for the service that he had done me, and also because I knew not whether I should need ...
— Indian Tales • Rudyard Kipling
... the helm up, and let her reel and wallow in the trough. Now I could see the fangs of rock myself and the white waves raging around them. See? I could have spat on them! There was a current there that set strongly toward the rocks, for a backwash of some sort helped the helm and we won clear, about a third full of water, with the crew too ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy


Words linked to "Backwash" :   wash, moving ridge, wake, aftermath, slipstream, race, airstream, consequence, wave, issue, upshot


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