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   2 Comb back cove.
   1837 BLUNT 48 To the northward of this head is Lally Back Cove, where ships may anchor in 14 or 16 fathoms water. 1987 Nfld Qtly lxxxii, 3, 3 Where in 1938 a handful of smugglers landed their boats after sundown in such back coves as Spencer's Dock and Payne's Cove, thousands of Newfoundlanders would be crossing into the country by causeway.
   back-end: see VEE.
   back run: a smaller branch of a river, as around an island (P 13-83). See RUN n 2.
   back side.
   1987 KIMIECIK 84 [A favourite meeting place is the] shop before the road continues on to what is called 'the backside' of the community.

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