hollow back

noun

, Bookbinding.

a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.

hollow-back

See hunchback, lordosis
pathol the nontechnical name for lordosis Compare hunchback

Now he will keep along this side hill, for he may cross this hollow back and forth three or four times before we find him fast.

The foil should then be floated on water, hollow back up, and blazing sealing–wax dropped into it to back it.

I'll be ready here at twelve prompt—or not here, maybe, but down in the hollow back of your henhouse.

To make a hollow back, a piece of stout paper is taken which measures once the length of the back and three times the width.

One day Governor Kirkwood of Iowa visited our regiment and made a speech to us in a hollow back of our line.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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