ADJECTIVE
- (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end
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having the spine damaged
a broken-backed book
a broken-backed old horse - (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth
How To Use broken-backed In A Sentence
- a broken-backed book
- The captain of a submarine is shown observing through the periscope a broken-backed merchantman, torpedoed fair amidships and sinking by the bow, with the complacent rhyme.
- a broken-backed old horse
- But at the foot of one steep cliff there was a narrow, bowlder-covered slope where it was possible to sling hammocks and cook; and a slanting spot was found for my cot, which had sagged until by this time it looked like a broken-backed centiped. IX. Down an Unknown River into the Equatorial Forest
- Mattresses have been driven out and dumped in fields, sticks of broken furniture poke out of ditches and broken-backed fences contain nothing.
- Despite the broken-backed attempts by his contemporaries to reinvent his fiction in the form of parodies, continuations, burlettas, and melodramas, the novels themselves appear to have always won the day.
- Gie a cheer, boys!" he cried; and as the muzzle of Mons Meg swept down the file, a strange wavering cry arose, that was half a gowl of anger and half a broken-backed cheer. Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895
- And at the bottom of the dip stood a small stone hut with a broken-backed roof.
