Usually means: Support for the upper back.
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  1. backrest: Merriam-Webster
  2. backrest: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. backrest: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. backrest: Collins English Dictionary
  5. backrest: Vocabulary.com
  6. backrest: Wordnik
  7. Backrest: InfoVisual Visual Dictionary
  8. backrest: Wiktionary
  9. backrest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. backrest: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. backrest: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. backrest: Dictionary.com
  13. Backrest: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. backrest: Rhymezone
  15. backrest: FreeDictionary.org
  16. backrest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  17. backrest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  18. backrest: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  19. backrest: Merriam-Webster

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  1. backrest: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. backrest: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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(Note: See backrests as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The back piece of a chair, used to support the sitter's back.
noun:  A guide attached to the slide rest of a lathe, and placed in contact with the work to steady it in turning.

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