Crossword-Solution: BACKLOG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Backlog | n. | A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth. |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AREET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with BACKLOG (5)
His first thought was sheer amazement that she was not afraid, for it was evident now that the backlog had awakened her, and she had taken the dog and gone to her mother.
Perhaps you could burn the backlog, and throw away all incoming mail for a while." "Burn! Throw away! Mother, Zeus would be furious! Besides, what if I burned Cupid's arrows? Athena and I might never be united!" Nevertheless, he thought about his Mother's words.
The next thing she did was to rake back the red embers, and make a hollow place among them, just where the backlog had been.
When supper was finished, and the tea-kettle was pushed back on the crane, and the backlog had been reduced to a heap of fiery embers, then was the time for listening to sailor yarns and ghost and witch legends.
This ferule was shaped much like the stick with which she stirred her hasty pudding for dinner,--I thought it was the same,--and I found myself caught in a whirlwind of family laughter by reporting at home that "Aunt Hannah punished the scholars with the pudding-stick." There was one colored boy in school, who did not sit on a bench, like the rest, but on a block of wood that looked like a backlog turned endwise.
Quotes with BACKLOG (3)
I've managed to bring the backlog down to a mere sixty-eight years," she announced with some small sense of achievement. "I hope to be able to start marking the papers of pupils who are still alive by the end of the decade.
Candice had been writing for two days’ straight, working on her publisher’s book deadline, when she wrote the end, smiled, and set the book aside. She would start proofing it tomorrow after she’d given her brain a break. Now she’d do what she always did when she finished a book, or reached a good stopping point in one. Clean house. Check her backlog of emails. Pick up some more groceries. And take a run on the wolf side. She finished vacuuming and dusting, swearing every wind…
Good horror is written by people who understand that fear is one of the cardinal passageways into the core of humanity. Good horror is generally written by folks who grew up on horror; books, movies, etc. You can’t simply decide to write — in any genre — if you don’t first have an understanding of the topic and a strong mental backlog of reference.
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Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 10 times in crossword archives (1953–2009).