backhand : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: backhand	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for backhand
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
backhand adj (of racket strokes) made across the body with back of hand facing direction of stroke Synonym(s): backhand(a), backhanded Antonym(s): forehand(a), forehanded (of handwriting) having the letters slanting backward Synonym(s): backhand, left-slanting n a return made with the back of the hand facing the direction of the stroke Synonym(s): backhand, backhand stroke, backhand shot v hit a tennis ball backhand
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backhand \Back"hand`\, n. [Back, adv. + hand.] A kind of handwriting in which the downward slope of the letters is from left to right.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Backhand \Back"hand`\, a. 1. Sloping from left to right; -- said of handwriting. 2. Backhanded; indirect; oblique. [R.]