Backs Of Books Crossword Clue

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	noun • the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord • any sharply pointed projection • a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf • the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved • a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin
	36%	9		Books with malleable backs
	noun • a book with paper covers
	35%	7		Backs out of space by us: he backs things on wheels
	noun • cap that fits over the hub of a wheel

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New York Times15 Dec 1983	Down 46
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