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backfall






backfall   
noun

Definition of backfall

1 obsolete : a descending appoggiatura in music
2 : the sloping surface in a beater or washing engine down which paper pulp passes on leaving the knives



First Known Use of backfall

1676, in the meaning defined at sense 1



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