"backblock" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From back + block.",
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          "ref": "1931, New Zealand House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, volume 229, page 281",
          "text": "I speak solely for the backblock roads, and I contend that the time has arrived when the Government should turn its attention to the metalling of these roads.",
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          "ref": "1955, Helen Wilson, My First Eighty Years, page 185",
          "text": "It has happened in other districts that new settlement has turned the old centres into isolated backblocks.",
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          "ref": "1991, Robin Hyde, Gillian Boddy, Jacqueline D. Matthews, Disputed Ground: Robin Hyde, Journalist, page 225",
          "text": "Backblocks hardship is a very real thing, but Mary Scott expresses it somewhat too much in the Victorian ‘There′s a tear on your eye’ mode, little graves on the hillside and old servants, horses and dogs, faithful to the last.",
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          "ref": "2001, Richard Flanagan, Gould's Book of Fish, Vintage, published 2016, page 82",
          "text": "The weeping man was an emancipist who had a backblock in the next valley & sometimes came over to see his cobber the shepherd, both being Roscommon men.",
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        "Land behind that which fronts on water; land without a permanent watercourse."
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