back av Comb back weight: in valuing seal 'pelts,' the number of pounds deducted from the total weight for the worthless flesh attached.
   1924 ENGLAND 170 They may grouse a bit concerning the low price of fat and the extortion of 'tare,' or 'back weight,' for adherent flesh that sticks to the fat; that is always reckoned as sticking to it, no matter how clean they peel the sculps. T 84-64 The biggest one went 380—the pelt. Pelt weighed 380 pounds, clear of back weight, and back weight was fourteen pound.

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