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Aback :: Aback (adv.) Behind; in the rear.

Aback :: Aback (adv.) Toward the back or rear; backward.

Pickapack :: Pickapack (adv.) Pickaback.

Huckaback :: Huckaback (n.) A kind of linen cloth with raised figures, used for towelings..

Aback :: Aback (n.) An abacus.

Boxhaul :: Boxhaul (v. t.) To put (a vessel) on the other tack by veering her short round on her heel; -- so called from the circumstance of bracing the head yards abox (i. e., sharp aback, on the wind)..

Pickpack :: Pickpack (adv.) Pickaback.

Pickaback :: Pickaback (adv.) On the back or shoulders; as, to ride pickback..

Abox :: Abox (adv. & a.) Braced aback.

Jam :: Jam (v. t.) To bring (a vessel) so close to the wind that half her upper sails are laid aback.

Chapel :: Chapel (v. t.) To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing..

Aback :: Aback (adv.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind.

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