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Definition of Aback

Aback
Aback Ab"ack ([a^]b"ak), n. An abacus. [Obs.] --B. Jonson.
Aback
Aback A*back" ([.a]*b[a^]k"), adv. [Pref. a- + back; AS. on b[ae]c at, on, or toward the back. See Back.] 1. Toward the back or rear; backward. ``Therewith aback she started.' --Chaucer. 2. Behind; in the rear. --Knolles. 3. (Naut.) Backward against the mast; -- said of the sails when pressed by the wind. --Totten. To be taken aback. (a) To be driven backward against the mast; -- said of the sails, also of the ship when the sails are thus driven. (b) To be suddenly checked, baffled, or discomfited. --Dickens.

Meaning of Aback from wikipedia

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- magic of Christians, priests, or as a corrupted version of "confused, taken aback" or "dōmawari, mekurami," but the details are unclear. Published as a newly...
- Murder (Concluding part)" 10 June 2005 (2005-06-10) The CID team is taken aback to know that a lot of people had reasons why they would want the actor dead...
- uncovers a love triangle and while detectives have multiple suspects in their grasp, they are taken aback when the true murderer shows their face on camera....
- Kitty. She decides to come out to her family and her parents are taken aback that she is not only ****, but engaged to a woman. Jenny has the support...
- restaurant industry in recent memory" and franchise owners were equally as taken aback by the news. While franchised stores—which on the whole were higher-performing...
- brings his new fiancé Gloria (Cecilia Hart) to meet the trio. Jack is taken aback when Gloria reveals herself to Jack as an old high school classmate of his--and...
- carved wooden statue of Saint Mary Magdalene holding an ointment jar, taken aback at finding the tomb empty (c. 1480-1530, late Gothic-Northern Renaissance)...
- which confuses him. So he invites Laura to a church social and is taken aback when she says she'll think about it. Later he comes in while one of her...
- disarming the bomb. Chris proposes house hunting to Lucy, which takes her aback and she struggles with keeping up with him and sorting out her feelings...