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(of a water wheel) Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel..
"Tommy" Hitchcock, the American ace, most brilliant hitter in the world, halts a ball with a flaying backshot, turning a defense maneuver into a mad offensive drive.
Who knows but they might come and fire a backshot at us, before we could get home; and then the devil take us, if the chance wouldn't be that some of us would'nt get home at all, at all.
If anybody tries a backshot, they will be blasted into dust.
If so great a commotion had been stirred up by his demand for a simple old camera backshot, there was no telling what kind of fuss would have resulted from his intention to achieve in his show the pace that distinguishes a good old-fashioned revival meeting!
Backshot of power station fully working.
Set in the 1930s in rural Nova Scotia, the film opens, in colour, with a backshot of the filmmaker — all that is evident are her dreads — typing its title and the details of its setting into a laptop computer.
In fact, one incensed male interviewee told me that Tanya needed a "good backshot inna har belly fi keep har quiet" (a good backshot up inside her abdomen to keep her quiet/calm).
And by the way, it also incites some backshot (a Caribbean term for a well-known sex position) and spanking tendencies during sexual activity for some.
Use backshot when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Backshot means (of a water wheel) Having the water introduced just behind the summit, combining the advantages of breastshot and overshot systems, since the full amount of the potential energy released by the falling water is harnessed as the water descends the back of the wheel..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"Tommy" Hitchcock, the American ace, most brilliant hitter in the world, halts a ball with a flaying backshot, turning a defense maneuver into a mad offensive drive.
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