backbone-like - Word in Context

Updated: May 23, 2025

Such was Father S , a very 'cute little man, knowing most of the troubles of the men about him, noticing their ways and keeping in touch with them all. Just after the episode of the lost squads we were working our stretcher-bearers as far as Brigade Headquarters which were situated on a steep backbone-like spur of the Kapanja Sirt.
John Hargrave - At Suvla Bay : Being the notes and sketches of scenes, characters and adventures of the Dardanelles campaign, made by John Hargrave ("White Fox") while serving with the 32nd field ambulance, X division, Mediterranean expeditionary force, during the great war.