backwing
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Forms: form: backwings
Senses: examples: text: With a disgusted backwing, I let myself down, hard.
ref: 2009, Brenda Cooper, Wings of Creation, →ISBN, page 114:
text: The very ground seemed to shake with the landing impact of all those silver and gold dragons, as well as the backwing flaps of over a thousand large, feathered mounts.
ref: 2012, J. Michael Fluck, Dragon Alliance: Dark Storm, →ISBN:
text: We were just about finished when two large ravens descended with thunderous backwings that sounded like chopper blades.
ref: 2013, Kevin Hearne, Hunted: The Iron Druid Chronicles, →ISBN:
glosses: An act of backwinging.
examples: text: The white band on the under side of the backwings is often reduced.
ref: 1952, Zoologische Beitra Ge Aus Uppsala, page 20:
text: The forewing is complete, but the backwing disappeared.
ref: 1992, Living with insects:
text: 18 of 38 of the females have two black eyespots on the forewings. Seven of those show a tiny white centre in the black eyespots. All female specimens have completely black backwings.
ref: 2007, Lambillionea - Volume 107, page 296:
glosses: One of the posterior pair of wings on an insect.
examples: text: I require a rigid skeletal shape and vent bones, nothing soft of spongy, excellent musculature, soft feathering and a good backwing and tail
ref: 1972, Britain's Year Book of Pigeon Racing, page 12:
text: But what I referred to there was, if the backwing of a racer is trimmed, I would not recommend entering that bird in a race in which there was a headwind.
ref: 1980, The American Racing Pigeon News - Volume 96, page 11:
glosses: The back portion of a bird's wing.
examples: text: The colours of the backwing are the following: the gubahan motif must be gilded, the tendrils of the gubahan motife are preferably made blue or or orange, the leaf work must be red and green.
ref: 1988, R. L. Mellema, Wayang Puppets: Carving, Colouring and Symbolism, page 43:
text: These points represent a remnant of the badong or backwing. In fact, only those characters that wear a backwing in wayang kulit should have these two points (see page 37, Rahwana).
ref: 1991, Peter Buurman, Wayang golek: the entrancing world of classical West Javanese puppet theatre:
glosses: A wing-like projection on the upper back of some a Wayang puppets.
examples: text: Mr Roger Opie, a Cornish farmer whose military knowledge would make him a formidable adversary if ever the Duchy declared itself independent, was the reader for whom I first imagined myself to be writing; to his encouragement, his wife Sue added the photographic expertise which contrived the flattering portrait that adorns the backwing of the jacket.
ref: 1984, Hugh McManners, Falklands Commando, page 11:
glosses: The flap of a dust jacket that folds around the back cover of a book.
examples: text: We are rather stifled by the Administration, however, until the second and third floors of the backwings are completed and we can kick the Applied Mechanics Department and Mineral Industries Department out, when they can move in the new Academic Science Building when that is completed, at which time then we will have space for a lounge.
ref: 1951, The Compass of Sigma Gamma Epsilon - Volume 29, page 162:
text: Behind the neo-Renaissance facades were high-rental apartments, and behind these, filling up the deeply cut speculative properties, were labyrinths of dark courts and backwings, one behind the other.
ref: 1989, Richard Joseph Neutra, William Marlin, Nature Near: The Late Essays of Richard Neutra, page 184:
text: Somehow I managed a nod...and Ramses satisfied disappeared and started for the upper levels presumably through one of the backwings that were located parallel but behind the main floors in the complex.
ref: 2017, Ace Finlay, Avilascaca Season 1 Episodes 1-8, →ISBN:
glosses: A wing at the rear of a building.