Definition of broken-backed Broken-backed

We found 10 definitions of broken-backed from 5 different sources.

What does broken-backed mean?

Adjective
broken-backed - (of a ship) so weakened as to sag at each end
		hogged
		convex, bulging curving or bulging outward
broken-backed - having the spine damaged; "a broken-backed book"; "a broken-backed old horse"
broken-backed - (of a horse) having bones of the back united by a bony growth

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broken-backed (a.)
Having a broken back; as, a broken-backed chair.
broken-backed (a.)
Hogged; so weakened in the frame as to droop at each end; -- said of a ship.

broken-backed
arcqué, the state or quality of a ship, which is so loosened in her frame, either by age, weakness, or some great strain, as to droop at each end.
This circumstance is more common amongst French than the English or Dutch ships, owing partly to their great length, and to the sharpness of the floor, whose breadth is not sufficiently carried from the middle towards each end; and partly from being frequently obliged to have a great weight in both ends, when they are empty in the middle, at the time of discharging one cargo and taking in another. See CAMBERING.

broken-backed
The state of a ship so loosened in her frame, either by age, weakness, or some great strain from grounding amidships, as to droop at each end, causing the lines of her sheer to be interrupted, and termed hogged. It may result from fault of construction, in the midship portions having more buoyancy, and the extreme ends too much weight, as anchors, boats, guns, &c., to sustain.

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