Associations to the word «Backrest»

Wiktionary

BACKREST, noun. The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.
BACKREST, noun. A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.

Dictionary definition

BACKREST, noun. A support that you can lean against while sitting; "the back of the dental chair was adjustable".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope