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Definition of Double back
1. Verb. Retrace one's course. "The hikers got into a storm and had to turn back"
Definition of Double back
1. Verb. (idiomatic) To retrace one's steps; to go back where one has already gone. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Double Back
Literary usage of Double back
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"A " double back*' is a dark slide in which two plates are placed back to back,
being separated by an opaque plate. Each side of the slide can be drawn up or ..."
2. The Church at Home and Abroad by Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (1892)
"double back-ACTION PRINCIPLE WITH TENFOLD RESULTS: A COLLOQUY.—E. "By the way,
what do you do about contributing to the Sustentation Fund? ..."
3. International Annual of Anthony's Photographic Bulletin and American Process by Frederick J Harrison, W I Scandlin (1899)
"Prices with one double back and two fronts: Scotia. Osborn. £ ed £ ad «i^xl% and
under... 8 4100 Extra double back each for either. Tripods. £sd £sd . ..."
4. Nature by Norman Lockyer (1877)
"... on coming to the end of a divided thread you could always double back on it
and choose another thread which might be running in the required direction. ..."
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