Meaning of BACKWATER
| Pronunciation: | | 'bak`wotur
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| | Definition: | | [n] any backward region that is isolated from the world and resists progress |
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| | Definition: | |  Backwater
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Back"wa`ter\, n. [Back, a. or adv. + -ward. ]
1. Water turned back in its course by an obstruction, an
opposing current, or the flow of the tide, as in a sewer
or river channel, or across a river bar.
2. An accumulation of water overflowing the low lands, caused
by an obstruction.
3. Water thrown back by the turning of a waterwheel, or by
the paddle wheels of a steamer.
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| | Definition: | | - Water backed-up or retarded in its course as compared with its normal or natural condition of flow.
- Ponding of a stream above an unnatural constriction; the incremental depth caused thereby.
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