hang back
verbDefinitions
To wait
To wait; to falter; to avoid proceeding through reluctance.
- From this one poor hunt, then, the best lance out of all Nantucket, surely he will not hang back, when every foremast-hand has clutched a whetstone?
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Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hang back. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA