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goback

noun

Etymology

Deverbal from go back.

Definitions

  1. An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.

    • Although no subsequent year matched this high percentage of returnees, disconsolate "gobacks" remained a permanent feature of the overland emigrations […]

  2. A section of honeycomb that is unfinished and returned to the hive.

    • Bees will then work in the whole super evenly and leave no gobacks.

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