backstress

English edit

Etymology 1 edit

back +‎ stress

Noun edit

backstress (plural backstresses)

(engineering) A long-range internal stress.

Etymology 2 edit

backster +‎ -ess? See backster, baxter.

Noun edit

backstress (plural backstresses)

(obsolete) A female baker.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “backstress”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)