Usually means: Adjust sails against wind direction.
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  1. back and fill: Merriam-Webster
  2. back and fill: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. back and fill: Collins English Dictionary
  4. back and fill: Wiktionary
  5. back and fill: Dictionary.com
  6. back and fill: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. back-and-fill: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary

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  1. back and fill: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. back and fill: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

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  1. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (back and fill)

verb:  (nautical) To manage the sails of a ship so that the wind strikes them alternately in front and behind, in order to keep the ship in the middle of a river or channel while the current or tide carries the vessel against the wind.
verb:  (figurative) To take opposite positions alternately; to assert and deny.

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