back-water

Then, at the whaler's orders, the boat was swung round and the men held their oars ready to back-water.

We crept at dusk into a shaded back-water, where our keel almost touched the gravel bed.

With a desperate masterfulness he swept her from their back-water solitude out into the full current.

The double signal to back water came, and I pushed the lever bar up and down twice before I got my last signal to stop.

Instead of this, Galileo compelled the entire faculty to back water and dine on fricasseed crow.