hollow back

American  

noun

Bookbinding.

1. a paper tube or roll, almost flattened, having one side glued to the back of a book and the other to the inside of the spine.

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hollow-back British  

noun

1. pathol the nontechnical name for lordosis Compare hunchback

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Other Word Forms

• hollow-backed adjective

Example Sentences

I sneaked out a quart jar of peaches, some cold corn bread, and a few onions, and started up the hollow back of our house.

From "Where the Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls

He was always talking about the white man up the hollow, back in the woods.

From Booker T. Washington Builder of a Civilization by Scott, Emmett J. (Emmett Jay)

A hollow back offends the eye much, and a roach back is worse.

From Dogs and All about Them by Leighton, Robert

The hollow back of this barrier would prove a very good refuge against the storm, for it happened to face in the best possible way.

From Rocky Mountain Boys Camping in the Big Game Country by Rathborne, St. George

If a book is sewn on tapes, and the back lined with leather, there is no serious objection to a carefully-made hollow back without bands.

From Bookbinding, and the Care of Books A handbook for Amateurs, Bookbinders & Librarians by Rooke, Noel