Definition of Reback

1. to replace the back of [v -ED, -ING, -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Reback

reavowed
reavowing
reavows
reawake
reawaked
reawaken
reawakened
reawakening
reawakens
reawakes
reawaking
reawoke
reawoken
rebab
rebabs
reback (current term)
rebacked
rebacking
rebacks
rebadge
rebadged
rebadges
rebadging
rebag
rebagged
rebagger
rebaggers
rebagging
rebags
rebait

Literary usage of Reback

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

1. Poet Lore (1921)
"Did you say that we were talking about reback? Adelaide.—Not we! ... reback.—A person must take accidents into account. What's the matter? ..."

2. Book Repair and Restoration: A Manual of Practical Suggestions for Bibliophiles by Mitchell Starrett Buck, Alfred Bonnardot (1918)
"It is sometimes preferable, however, merely to reback such books, ... It is inadvisable to reback with calf or any very perishable leather. ..."

3. Book Repair and Restoration: A Manual of Practical Suggestions for Bibliophiles by Mitchell Starrett Buck, Alfred Bonnardot (1918)
"It is sometimes preferable, however, merely to reback such books, ... It is inadvisable to reback with calf or any very perishable leather. ..."

4. Annual Report of the Worcester County Law Library by Worcester County Law Library (Mass.) (1908)
"In this case one lacing was broken, and super nearly gone so that we were forced to reback on these accounts, where the leather back was fairly strong. ..."

5. Book Repair and Restoration: A Manual of Practical Suggestions for by Mitchell Starrett Buck, Alfred Bonnardot (1918)
"It is sometimes preferable, however, merely to reback such books, ... It is inadvisable to reback with calf or any very perishable leather. ..."

6. Library Journal by American Library Association, Library Association (1885)
"Sometimes he has been content to " restore," or reback a binding. Sometimes he has laid his clumsy hands on characteristic peculiarities of the old and ..."

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