"water" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- First one oar is backing water, and then the other; it is seldom that both are going ahead at once.
- "Here goes," I said, backing water with one oar and running the bow ashore.
- The first line was in the river now, but the enemy galleys were backing water.
- The paddlers backed water until the canoe was almost stopped.
- The slaves backed water, and the ram came out: with a groan of split wood.
- The creature backed water with its single long paddle so that the skiff stopped a few yards away from them.
- They must be backing water to pull loose.
- The oarsmen backed water; the same moment something went hot and hissing along every one of their wrists.
- To the captain's shouted directions, his crew backed water.
- The dam had backed water up the canyon and deepened it considerably.
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