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back-water
verb as in slow
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Then, at the whaler's orders, the boat was swung round and the men held their oars ready to back-water.
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We crept at dusk into a shaded back-water, where our keel almost touched the gravel bed.
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With a desperate masterfulness he swept her from their back-water solitude out into the full current.
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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.
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Instead of this, Galileo compelled the entire faculty to back water and dine on fricasseed crow.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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