Definition of "put back" []

• To return something to it's original place. (verb)
• To postpone an arranged event or appointment. (verb)
• To drink fast; to knock down alcohol. (verb)
• To change the time in a time zone to an earlier time. (verb)

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• "How lovely she was in her marvelous white lace gown and veil, with tiny buttons that fastened right up to the chin, with white filmy stockings, white satin-and-lace shoes that could be taken off and put back on."
• "For every 15 degrees of longitude made good to the westward the ship's clocks were put back an hour — they were already two hours earlier than Greenwich Mean Time when Wattenberg noted in the log on 27th August that the Graf Spee was now on the same latitude as London, in a position almost midway between Britain and Newfoundland."
• "Mammy Thomas, with many an "Excuse me, Honey," mumbled into the ears of both, cleared the table, put back the white and red checkered cloth, moved the jar of toothpicks conveniently near, and returned to the kitchen."