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Definition of Rear-end

1. Verb. Collide with the rear end of. "The car rear-ended me"

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Rear-end

reappraises reappraising reappropriate reappropriated reappropriates reappropriating reapprove reapproved reapproves reapproving

reaps reap hook rear rear rear(a) rear-end (current term) rear-horse reared rearer rearers

rearguard reargue reargued reargues rearguing reargument rearguments rearing rearise rearisen

Literary usage of Rear-end

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1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and (1911)
"This second layer is covered with wire, and jacket. The breech bush is screwed into the rear end of the A tube over this U shrunk the chase hoop or В tube ..."

2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1888)
"So, too, the draft rod in the plaintiff's patent is attached to the shoe in front of the finger beam, instead of at the extreme rear end of the shoe, ..."

3. United States Supreme Court Reports by United States Supreme Court, Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, LEXIS Law Publishing (1901)
"Between the inner side of the boiler B and the rear end vertical flues K and L L', a plate may be employed, indicated by dotted line •w v>. ..."

4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1920)
"The rear end of the shafting twisted off the rear truck as the change to a diagonal had moved it to the corner of that truck from which it tumbled, ..."

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