What does backwood mean?
Backwood means Native to or located in a remote rural location..
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/ˈbækˌwʊd/ · adjective
Native to or located in a remote rural location..
The house itself, although far more spacious and comfortable than the majority of backwood farmhouses, was built in the usual fashion, of solid logs, and was evidently designed to resist attack.
Despite the court victory, Archer resigned as deputy chairman and rehabilitated himself by working as a party stalwart in backwood constituencies.
Here, after supper, most of the company stretched themselves in backwood style, before the fire; but Washington was shown into a bedroom.
"That's what you mean, dandy boy — for you're only a dandy boy, you know, and they don't get married to backwood Southern girls."
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Backwood means Native to or located in a remote rural location..
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The house itself, although far more spacious and comfortable than the majority of backwood farmhouses, was built in the usual fashion, of solid logs, and was evidently designed to resist attack.
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