roach-backed

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

roach +‎ backed

Adjective[edit]

roach-backed (comparative more roach-backed, superlative most roach-backed)

  1. (of a horse) Having a convex back rather than a concave one.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for roach-backed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)