Definition of Flatback

1. a pottery figure with a flat back [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Flatback

flat spaces
flat store
flat stores
flat tip screwdriver
flat tire
flat tires
flat top waves
flat tyre
flat tyres
flat wart
flat wash
flat white
flat whites
flat wrack
flat wracks
flatback (current term)
flatbacks
flatbed
flatbed lorry
flatbed press
flatbed truck
flatbeds
flatbill
flatbills
flatblock
flatblocks
flatboat
flatboats
flatbottom
flatbottomed

Literary usage of Flatback

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Old Virginia Gentleman: And Other Sketches by George William Bagby (1910)
"He swears that flatback is the greatest eating in the world. ... The skulls of flatback parched would make splendid coffee. flatback is the meat of all ..."

2. Southern Literary Messenger (1858)
"My uncle flatback claimed her as his own, not for himself, but as a present for his mallet-headed grandson. My aunt disputed the claim, and said Ellen ..."

3. Creating Wealth from Waste by Robin Murray (1999)
"The medium-cost flatback truck is a standard vehicle. It has wire containers for sorting various recyclable materials. Electric carts, which have the lowest ..."

4. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark to by Meriwether Lewis, William Clark (1902)
"... consisting of pike, bass, fish resembling salmon, trout, redhorse, buffalo, one rockfish, one flatback, perch, catfish, a small species of perch called, ..."

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