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"A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension."
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"(literal) A suddenly reversed or backward motion, such as of a rope or elastic band when it snaps under tension."
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"text": "The public backlash to the proposal was quick and insistent.",
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"sense": "violent or abrubt reaction",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "violent or abrubt reaction",
"word": "საპირისპირო რეაქცია"
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"sense": "violent or abrubt reaction",
"word": "ძლიერი უარყოფითი რეაქცია"
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"word": "εξέγερση"
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"sense": "violent or abrubt reaction",
"word": "contraccolpo"
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"sense": "violent or abrubt reaction",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "comoção"
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"sense": "violent or abrubt reaction",
"word": "chống đối"
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"text": "... the word \"backlash\" is used in the extended sense in which it is understood in Lancashire and Yorkshire , including not only backlash proper , but also break of contact between the working faces of the teeth of the two wheels when the driven wheel overruns the driver without actual backlash . To place rope or belt drums of any considerable size upon shafts driven by spur gearing is nearly always dangerous."
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"(mechanics) The looseness through which one part of connected machinery, such as a wheel, gear, piston, or screw, can be moved without moving the connected parts, or a measurement of the distance moved thereby; either intentional (as allowance) or unintentional (from error or wear)."
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"word": "gioco"
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"word": "мёртвый ход"
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"text": "1909 La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique v. Hayes. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. March 16, 1909.) No. 205.\nThere was testimony that but for the orders of these men, or one of them, the case would have been properly backlashed before being lowered into the hold and that the anxiety of the foreman to get the cargo in quickly induced him to order this case sent down without being properly safeguarded."
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"text": "1894 William Westall. Tinkler. Ludgate Illustrated Magazine. Vol VIII\nThrutch factory was a queer old concern. It had been built piecemeal-here a bit and there a bit. There were a new end and an old end, the spinning-rooms in the one being light and lofty, in the other low. and gloomy. Looms were shoved in everywhere. There were a \"long shop\" with three hundred, a \"top shop\" with a hundred, a \"back shop\" with fifty-three, and a \"little shop\" with fifteen. Never was its equal for gearing. Shafts were everywhere inside and out, overground and underground, climbing snake-like up the walls, and boring into the roofs; spurwheels, great and small, whirled, clashed and \"backlashed\" all over the place."
},
{
"ref": "1895 W. C. Kepler. Uncle and the Bass The American Angler - Volume 25 - Page 226",
"text": "Just as it began to get dusk and the shadows from the trees deepening the twilight that had already spread over the lake, giving a peculiarly lonesome effect that water always has upon the approach of night, Uncle succeeded in getting out the longest cast he had yet made — about seventy-five feet. Unfortunately, or perhaps I should say fortunately, his reel over-ran and backlashed for him. Patiently he set about untangling his line; I resting the oars and holding the boat stationary."
},
{
"text": "1909 La Compagnie Générale Transatlantique v. Hayes. (Circuit Court of Appeals, Second Circuit. March 16, 1909.) No. 205.\nThere was testimony that but for the orders of these men, or one of them, the case would have been properly backlashed before being lowered into the hold and that the anxiety of the foreman to get the cargo in quickly induced him to order this case sent down without being properly safeguarded."
},
{
"ref": "1922 Interstate Commerce Commission. Fifth Annual Report. Chief Inspector of Locomotive Boilers. Annual Report of the Chief Inspector. Bureau of Locomotive Inspection. To the Interstate Commerce Commission",
"text": "May 2, 1922, locomotive 2469 , Hornell, N. Y. Screw reverse gear backlashed due to latch spring too weak to hold it in place ; 1 injured"
},
{
"ref": "1936 Gifford Pinchot. Two's Company. The Rotarian April 1936",
"text": "I have the faculty of getting more backlashed in less casts with more kinds of guaranteed anti-backlash reels than any man who reads this sad confession. I am letter-perfect at it. Yet I do sometimes catch fish."
}
],
"glosses": [
"To perform a backlash, to lash back in reaction to some cause."
]
}
],
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{
"ipa": "/ˈbækˌlæʃ/"
},
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"US"
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}
],
"wikipedia": [
"backlash (disambiguation)"
],
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}
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