Definition of "back-water" [back-water]

• Alternative spelling of backwater. (noun)

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• "Furthermore, Jesus' birth was probably no more eventful than any of the other innumerable, anonymous, back-water peasant births of the time."
• "Everyone makes fun of Alabama and Mississippi as being ignorant, back-water states. 10 years from now, entire college economic classes are going to be taught about the giant Washington State economic meltdown and how it happened."
• "Now the heroes apart in ambush, in a back-water of the river, were met in council, sitting on the benches of their ship."