backboard.
The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
Meaning & usage
The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
A flat vertical wall with the image of a tennis net drawn or painted on it, designed to practice hitting against such that the ball rebounds.
A spine board.
A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, behind a signal, etc.
Where this word comes from
From back + board.
To place (a patient) on a spine board.
Where this word comes from
From back + board.
The port or larboard side of a ship
Where this word comes from
Likely a borrowing from Dutch bakboord (“portside”) or from Middle Low German backbort, bakbōrt (“portside”). Old English bæcbord (“larboard, portside”) did not survive (in that form) into Middle English; Scottish texts of the 1500s have forms like bawbord, baburd and babord, possibly borrowed from French bâbord; later texts with Scots backburd, backber may have borrowed it from Old Norse bakborði (“portside”). Cognate with West Frisian bakboard (“portside”), German Backbord (“portside”), Danish bagbord (“portside”).
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