Synonyms:
spinal_column, vertebral_column, spine, backbone, back, rachis
Meaning: the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord; "the fall broke his back"
Usage examples
Now the eyes clashed, and the Wolf, who was used to being feared, felt a strange coolness on his spine.
It simply consisted in drawing the bowie knife from his belt, and inserting about in inch of its blade into the mare's hip, close to the termination of the spine.
The tips of my fingers touched what felt like round balls, but, not satisfied, I pulled down the bough and found one round ball and one mite of a gray back with microscopic yellow hairs on each side of the spine.
A cat can look round pretty far behind it without moving its body, which might be apt to startle its prey. The spine of the Cat is very full and loose, in order that all its movements in all possible directions and circumstances may be free and unrestrained.
Out from one side of his head, and mingling with his whiskers, projected the long, spiked spine of the big fish: down from the other side of that ferocious head dangled the fish's tail, and from above the remarkable effect thus produced shot the intolerable glare of two yellow eyes.