Definitions
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- adjective Having a
sagged back. - adjective Having sagged or
hollow surface. - adjective figuratively
Old .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Far away from the gusts out there tossing tumbleweeds under swaybacked radials, the swerve, catty wompous
Agoraphobic Confronts The Security In Galleria Dennis Mahagin 2011
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TOMIYA, Egypt—In this rural hamlet 160 kilometers 100 miles southwest of Cairo, farmers turn their fields with ox-pulled plows and ferry their daily harvest to market on carts pulled by swaybacked donkeys.
Key Clans Hold Sway in Egypt Elections Charles Levinson 2011
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The rest of the street is lined with weary three-story homes, wood-framed High Victorians with freshly painted gingerbread details, just bright and cheerful enough to distract from their age and swaybacked roofs.
Zebratown Greg Donaldson 2010
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Three thirsty milk cows, a team of heavy draft horses, and an old, swaybacked saddle horse shuffled up to drink.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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With their mixed ancestry, it was inevitable that some of the wild horses were born runts or splayfooted or swaybacked or too heavy-hocked to do anything but pull a manure wagon.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Three thirsty milk cows, a team of heavy draft horses, and an old, swaybacked saddle horse shuffled up to drink.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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With their mixed ancestry, it was inevitable that some of the wild horses were born runts or splayfooted or swaybacked or too heavy-hocked to do anything but pull a manure wagon.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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Then she was on the swaybacked davenport, holding a cup of hot water that smelled of tea—they could only change the tea leaves once a week, and this was Friday, she thought irrelevantly.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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Then she was on the swaybacked davenport, holding a cup of hot water that smelled of tea—they could only change the tea leaves once a week, and this was Friday, she thought irrelevantly.
Songs of Love & Death George R. R. Martin 2010
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With their mixed ancestry, it was inevitable that some of the wild horses were born runts or splayfooted or swaybacked or too heavy-hocked to do anything but pull a manure wagon.
Come Again No More Jack Todd 2010
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