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Backless
(Back"less), a. Without a back.

Backlog
(Back"log`) n. [Back, a. + log.] A large stick of wood, forming the back of a fire on the hearth. [U.S.]

There was first a backlog, from fifteen to four and twenty inches in diameter and five feet long, imbedded in the ashes.
S. G. Goodrich.