aback (Crossword)

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  1. Aft
  2. Bad way to be taken
  3. By surprise
  4. Exclusively Anglo word
  5. Exclusively Saxon word
  6. Having the wind against the forward side of the sails
  7. How one may be taken
  8. How some are taken
  9. How some folks are taken
  10. How the surprised may be taken
  11. Off guard
  12. Off-guard
  13. One way to be taken
  14. One way to get taken
  15. Rearward
  16. Shocked, taken ---
  17. Startling way to be taken
  18. Sternward
  19. Stunned way to be taken
  20. Surprised way to be taken
  21. Surprised, taken ---
  22. Surprising way to be taken
  23. Taken, sometimes
  24. To the rear
  25. Toward the aft
  26. Toward the back
  27. Unawares
  28. Way to be taken
  29. Where one is surprisingly taken
  30. Where the offended are taken
  31. Word of purely Anglo origin
  32. Word with no outside influence
  33. Word with Anglo-Saxon origins

Definitions of “aback”
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• (adv.) Toward the back or rear
• When the wind presses back on the sails
• Said of the sails when pressed by the wind
• By surprise; `taken aback by the caustic remarks`
• Having the wind against the forward side of the sails
• Aback is Massachusetts slang for at a standstill, going nowhere
• A boat is taken aback when the wind hits what was the leeward side
• So that the wind presses against the forward side of the sail or sails
• Surprised and disconcerted: I was taken aback by his harsh criticism

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