haulback
/ˈhɔːlbæk/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "We ran 3,000 feet of haulback and got only thirty-five logs."
- "The skyline isn't interlocked with the mainline and haulback, and the mainline and haulback can't both wind the same direction at the same time."
- "Butt rigging—a series of heavy steel links, swivels, and shackles—commected the main line to the haulback line and carried up to six chokers."
- "This includes mining systems R&D such as development of haulback techniques to redeposit overburden material in a beneficial sequence immediately behind the extraction operation to minimize costs and aesthetic and environmental damage."
- "As a result, haulback systems are being designed in shich the strip mine is continuously filled in behind as the mine advances."