Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In wrestling, a fall or trip-up in which a wrestler is thrown upon his back.
- n. In music, an obsolete melodic decoration, nearly like the modern long appoggiatura: called a double backfall when prolonged.
- n. In organ-building, a lever whose front end is raised by the motion of a digital or pedal transmitted through a sticker (which see), its back end being correspondingly depressed: a device for transforming upward motion into downward.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A fall or throw on the back in wrestling.
Etymologies
- back + fall (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Paul accepted, and in another month was back in London, resolute to try a new backfall with the world.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘backfall’.
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back phrases/hyphens/compounds
backache to backyard
back-ache, back-aching, back-acter, back-acting, back-answer, back-bar, back-basket, back beat, back-bias, back-blast, back-blowing, back-boiler and 342 more...
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Front and Back
backchat, backbone, backpack, backhoe, backfire, backhanded, breakfront, beachfront, drawback, effrontery, frontier, switchback and 196 more...
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Wrestling with Words
Wrestling holds and moves. (Not professional wrestling, which deserves its own list.)
flying mare, scissor grip, scissors hold, toe hold, strangle, stranglehold, japanese strangle..., bear hug, Nelson, full nelson, half nelson, lock and 19 more...
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