hunchback, hunch-back
[f. hunch n. + back n.]
1. (ˈhʌnʃˈbæk) A hunched back.
| 1718 F. Hutchinson Witchcraft 248 A Man with a Hunch-back higher than his Head. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. iii. iii, One Lautrec, a man with hunchback, or natural deformity. |
2. (ˈhʌnʃbæk) = humpback n. 2.
| 1712 tr. Arab. Nts. cxxiii. (ed. 2) IV. 35 The Story of the little Hunch-back. 1818 B. O'Reilly Greenland 186 A hunch-back..about fourteen years of age. 1870 L'Estrange Miss Mitford I. vii. 240 The only bearable hunch⁓back of my acquaintance is Richard the Third. |
3. attrib. Hump-backed.
| 1850 W. B. Clarke Wreck Favorite 181 The hump-back or hunch-back whale..with a larger hump than the sperm whale. |