Meaning of aback of | Babel Free

Definitions

Behind; on the other side of

British, English, US, dialectal

Examples

“[…] to effect which they must beat⟳ to windward for several days, between the west end⟳ of Cuba and the south coast of East Florida, till they get⟳ as far to the eastward as the Pan of Matanzas, a mountain so called, just aback of the town of the same name⟳, say⟳ thirty leagues to the east of the Havanna, opposite which the gulph stream turns to a due north direction, which had been before east, and runs three, four, and five knots an hour […]”

“The question⟳ of wind must be matter⟳ of inference from the incidents above stated: the movement of the “Lawrence” and “Queen Charlotte,” and the bracing aback of the “Niagara's” topsail.”

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