Backboard
noun, verb ·2 syllables ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The flat vertical surface to which the basket is attached.
- 2 The port or larboard side of a ship uncountable, usually
"And to delight in the fact that a hole on the backboard side means that you're safe because you're sitting on the starboard side seems to me to be less than clever."
- 3 a board used to support the back of someone or something wordnet
- 4 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.
- 5 a raised vertical board with basket attached; used to play basketball wordnet
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- 6 A spine board.
- 7 A board placed at the back of a cart, boat, behind a signal, etc.
"The L.B.S.C.R. favoured backboards for signals wherever these helped visibility. The Great Eastern also made extensive use of backboards."
- 1 To place (a patient) on a spine board. transitive
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More examples"A few minutes later I came to and I was on a backboard with a neckbrace on being taken down the mountain by ski patrol."
Etymology
From back + board.
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”).