Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Carried by head-winds to the back of a cape or promontory: said of a ship.
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Examples
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Nelson did not mean to be back-strapped again within the Mediterranean, with a west wind, and a current setting to leeward, if the enemy turned up in the Atlantic.
The Life of Nelson Mahan, A. T. 1897
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Nelson did not mean to be back-strapped again within the Mediterranean, with a west wind, and a current setting to leeward, if the enemy turned up in the Atlantic.
The Life of Nelson, Volume 2 (of 2) The Embodiment of the Sea Power of Great Britain 1877
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There was a Swede that came back next day to her anchorage, which was said to have got back-strapped, behind the Rock, by some legerdemain, and so escaped also.
Ned Myers or, a Life Before the Mast James Fenimore Cooper 1820
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