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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. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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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. 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. 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. |
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