| 单词 | back-bearing | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasback-bearing   Bearing on the back: an Old English combination, long retained as a law-term to describe a thief caught in the act of thus carrying off stolen property. Sometimes modernized as  back-bearing. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > receiving or possessing stolen goods > 			[adjective]		 back-berend1292 1292    Britton  i. xxx. §6  				Acun laroun ou robbeour seisi de soen larcyn handhabbynde et bacberinde. c1550    J. Balfour Practicks 		(1754)	 37  				Theives tane and apprehendit in manifest thift, sic as hand-havand and back-beirand. 1641    Rastell's Termes de la Ley 		(new ed.)	 f. 36v  				Backberind theefe. 1822    Edinb. Rev. 36 295  				If the offender could be taken back-bearing. 1828    W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth iv, in  Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. I. 109  				Our hand-habend, our back-bearand, and our blood-suits. < as lemmas | 
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