backwing noun 6verb 1forms 3 noun6 •One of the posterior pair of wings on an insect.The white band on the under side of the backwings is often reduced. — 1952 •The back portion of a bird's wing.I require a rigid skeletal shape and vent bones, nothing soft of spongy, excellent musculature, soft feathering and a good backwing and tail — 1972 •A wing at the rear of a building.Behind the neo-Renaissance facades were high-rental apartments, and behind these, filling up the deeply cut speculative properties, were labyrinths of dark courts and backwings, one behind the other. — 1989 •The flap of a dust jacket that folds around the back cover of a book. •An act of backwinging.With a disgusted backwing, I let myself down, hard. — 2009 •A wing-like projection on the upper back of some a Wayang puppets.The colours of the backwing are the following: the gubahan motif must be gilded, the tendrils of the gubahan motife are preferably made blue or or orange, the leaf work must be red and green. — 1988 verb1 •To flap the wings in such a way as to push air forward, thereby slowing forward momentum.As he got out, a raven backwinged to a landing in a nearby tree and was scolded by a squirrel who had thought that it was his spruce. — 1998 formsbackwinged · backwinging · backwings
