aback
aback is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 3 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.Behind; in the rear. Knolles.
- 2.(Naut.) Backward against the mast;-said of the sails when pressed by the wind. Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. Dickens.
- 3.An abacus. [Obs.] B. Jonson.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- abaft
- aft
- after
- aitchbone
- astern
- back
- background
- backside
- backwards
- behind
- bend
- bone
- breech
- bring
- buttock
- caudal
- chine
- coin
- croup
- crupper
- dorsal
- dorsum
- fall
- guard
- heelpiece
- hind
- hinder
- hindermost
- hindmost
- hinterland
- loin
- lumbar
- mizzen
- nape
- natch
- occiput
- other
- poop
- posterior
- posteriority
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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