humpback

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A humped back (deformity in humans caused by abnormal curvature of the upper spine).

   “[…] the Stone in my Fathers Body was so immense, that I’ve wonder’d it did not bunch up behind, and make him have a Hump-back, or at least overpoise him in walking, and drag him backward with its incredible weight.”

2. isim A hump or protuberance on the shoulders or back of an animal.

   “[…] the cows stood about with gloomy eyes and hump-backs, surly and dangerous […]”

3. isim A rounded topographical feature, such as a mountain or hill.

   “The Goons kept appearing and disappearing in different places, always closer to them, as they worked their way over the humpback of the terrain.”

4. isim A person with a humpback; a person who suffers from kyphosis.

   “[…] Tom’s more specific and kindly impressions gradually melted into the old background of suspicion and dislike toward him as a queer fellow, a humpback, and the son of a rogue.”

5. isim A humpback whale.
6. isim A humpback salmon.
7. fiil To hunt humpback whales.

   “The captain of the James Rodgers […] was an old hand at humpbacking […]”