backwing
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Synonyms: backing, backwind, backswing, blackwing, hacking, cackling, tackling, balking, bucking, lacking, basking, racking
Antonyms: backing, backwind, backswing, blackwing, hacking, cackling, tackling, balking, bucking, lacking, basking, racking
Related words from Datamuse; suggestions, not definitions.
Verb
- To [[flap]] the [[wing]]s in such a way as to push air [[forward]], thereby [[slow]]ing forward [[momentum]].
Noun
- An act of backwinging.
- One of the [[posterior]] pair of [[wing]]s on an [[insect]].
- The back portion of a [[bird]]'s wing.
- A wing-like [[projection]] on the upper back of some a [[Wayang]] [[puppet]]s.
- The [[flap]] of a [[dust jacket]] that folds around the [[back]] [[cover]] of a [[book]].
- A [[wing]] at the rear of a building.
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