backlins

[ bak-linz ]

adverb

, Scot. and North England.

1. backward; back.

Word History and Origins

Origin of backlins¹

First recorded before 1000; Middle English bakling, Old English on bæcling “backwards”; back ¹, -ling ² -s ¹

Example Sentences

Darkling.—This is no participle of a verb darkle, but an adverb of derivation, like unwaring�n = unawares, Old High German; stillinge = secretly, Middle High German; blindlings = blindly, New High German; darnungo = secretly, Old Saxon; nichtinge = by night, Middle Dutch; blindeling = blindly, New Dutch; b�clinga = backwards, handlunga = hand to hand, Anglo-Saxon; and, finally, blindlins, backlins, darklins, middlins, scantlins, stridelins, stowlins, in Lowland Scotch.

From Project Gutenberg

B. Ba’, ball.Babie-clouts, child’s first clothes.Backets, ash-boards, as pieces of backet for removing ashes.Backlins, comin’, coming back, returning.Back-yett, private gate.Baide, endured, did stay.Baggie, the belly.Bairn, a child.Bairn-time, a family of children, a brood.Baith, both.Ballets,

From Project Gutenberg

To gae backlins, to walk backwards, like a ropemaker.

From Project Gutenberg