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backfall|ˈbækˌfɔːl|
[f. back adv. and n.]
Hence ˈbackfalled ppl. a.
†1. A ‘grace’ in old English music; see quot.
1676Mace Musicks Mon. i. xiv. 90 To make a Back-fall Right, you are always to strike the Precedent Letter..instead of that Letter, which is to be Back-fall'd with your Right Hand. 1878Grove Dict. Mus. I. 43 The smooth graces..include the Plain-beat or Rise, the Backfall, the Double Backfall.
2. A fall or throw on the back in wrestling. Often fig.
1838–9Hood's Own 3 No wrestler..ever received half so many back-falls as I. 1852Dickens Bleak Ho. xxv, He will throw him an argumentative back-fall presently.
3. A lever in the coupler of an organ.
1880E. Hopkins in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 606/2 This coupler is always worked by a pedal, on pressing which the backfalls descend into position. 1881C. Edwards Organs 71 Backfalls are usually made of mahogany. |