water back

1. 1.

   water heater consisting of a tank or pipes set at the back of a fireplace or in the firebox of a stove

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   Part offireplacecookstove

Questions about water back

What does water back mean?

water back means "water heater consisting of a tank or pipes set at the back of a fireplace or in the firebox of a stove".

Is water back a common word?

water back is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.