Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A high back-bar attached to a, seat as a support for the back. It is sometimes made so as to be removable.
  • noun An iron rest placed over the fire to support a frying-pan, etc.
  • Having a reclining back, as a chair.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun colloq. A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun colloquial A support for the back, attached to the seat of a carriage.

Etymologies

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lazy +‎ back

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Examples

  • A grumbling old woman mended the fire at her own side of the room, nearest the door, spreading smooth robes where the man's medicine hung at the willow tripod, his slatted lazyback near by.

    The Covered Wagon Emerson Hough 1890

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