DCHP-3

backer

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

in curling, a rock resting in the back zone of the house and functioning as a buffer for later rocks, preventing them from sliding outside the circle.

Quotations

1964
He punched Dagg's rock against a backer and allowed Canada to steal one.