Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having no water-space at the back end: used in reference to boilers which have no water-space at the back of the combustion-chamber.
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Examples
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She was the first one here, deep at peace while the others were still being cut open and reshaped by grubby dryback hands.
Starfish 1999
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The lights are turned too low for dryback vision; Clarke and Acton see a room suffused in pale fluorescence.
Starfish 1999
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"We don't run on dryback schedules here, you know that.
Starfish 1999
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