BACK FILLING

Definition: BACK FILLING

BACK FILLING

1. (Arch.), the mass of materials used in filling up the space between two walls, or between the inner and outer faces of a wall, or upon the haunches of an arch or vault.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Specialty Definitions: BACK FILLING

Domain	Definitions
Mining	A. Rough masonry built in behind the facing or between two faces; similar material used in filling over the extrados of an arch; also, brickwork used to fill in space between studs in a frame building, sometimes called brick nogging b. The filling in again of a place from which the rock or ore has beenremoved. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Modern Translations: BACK FILLING

Language		Translations for "BACK FILLING"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Danish		opfyldning af en udgravning (refilling). (various references)

Dutch		aanvullen van een werkput (refilling). (various references)

French		remblaiement d'une fouille. (various references)

German		das Auffuellen der Baugrube (refilling). (various references)

Greek		επιχωμάτωση εκχώματος (refilling), επιχωμάτωση ορύγματος (refilling). (various references)

Pig Latin		ackbay illingfay.(various references)

Spanish		relleno (backfill, back-filling, blinding, construction of an embankment, cushion, embankment, fill, fill embankment, filled, filler, filling, filling material, filling paste, filling up, forming of an embankment, packing, pad, padded, padding, replacement, replenishment, stemming, stowage, stowed goaf, stowing, stowing material, stuffing, supplement, tamping, topping up, topping(California), wadding), macidado (backfill, filling material, stowed goaf, stowing, stowing material). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: BACK FILLING

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: backfilling.
	Words within the letters "a-b-c-f-g-i-i-k-l-l-n"
	-3 letters: backfill, blackfin, blacking, flacking, flailing, flicking.
	-4 letters: albinic, allicin, bacilli, backing, bailing, balking, balling, bilking, billing, cabling, calking, calling, fabling, failing, falling, filling, finback, finical, flaking, killing, lacking, licking, niblick.
	-5 letters: ailing, baking, baling, biking, caking, calkin, clinal, facing, faking, filial, filing, finial, gallic, infall, lacing, laking, liking, nilgai.
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