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backlog

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backlog [′bak‚läg]
(industrial engineering)
An accumulation of orders promising future work and profit.
An accumulation of unprocessed materials or unperformed tasks.
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It did one's heart good to see the great fires that were kindled in the parlor and bar-room, especially the latter, where the fireplace was built of rough stone, and might have contained the trunk of an old tree for a backlog.
The Great Carbuncle by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
As the foundation of the fire, there would be a goodly-sized backlog of red oak, which, after being sheltered from rain or damp above a century, still hissed with the heat, and distilled streams of water from each end, as if the tree had been cut down within a week or two.
From Twice Told Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
The next thing she did was to rake back the red embers, and make a hollow place among them, just where the backlog had been.
Tanglewood Tales by Hawthorne, Nathaniel View in context
 
 
 
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