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backboard

noun

Etymology

Likely a borrowing from Dutch bakboord (“portside”) or from Middle Low German backbort, bakbōrt (“portside”). Old English bæcbord (“larboard, portside”) did not survive (in that form) into Middle English; Scottish texts of the 1500s have forms like bawbord, baburd and babord, possibly borrowed from French bâbord; later texts with Scots backburd, backber may have borrowed it from Old Norse bakborði (“portside”). Cognate with West Frisian bakboard (“portside”), German Backbord (“portside”), Danish bagbord (“portside”).

  1. borrowed from backbort
  2. borrowed from bakboord — “portside”

Definitions

  1. The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.

  2. A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to…

    A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.

  3. A spine board.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, behind a signal, etc.

      • The L.B.S.C.R. favoured backboards for signals wherever these helped visibility. The Great Eastern also made extensive use of backboards.
      • He […]had ridden the remainder of the way clinging to the backboard of a cotton wagon.

    2. To place (a patient) on a spine board.

    3. The port or larboard side of a ship

      • And to delight in the fact that a hole on the backboard side means that you're safe because you're sitting on the starboard side seems to me to be less than clever.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA