RESERVE
ADJECTIVES & ADVERBS
► UNDERHAND in reserve → 1929 Sc.
NOUNS
► BACKSET a something in reserve, esp. applied to a store of money or goods held in reserve against an emergency; hence, a prop, a support → 1868 Eng. dial.
► BACK-WATCH a reserve fund put by against an emergency → 1898 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► FALL-BACK a something upon which one may fall back; a reserve → 1851
► LIE-BY anything held in reserve → 19C Eng. dial.
VERBS
► BAGS to claim rights to something; to reserve something → 1944 Aust. sl.
► HOSEY to claim or reserve something → 1996 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► WRITE ONE’S NAME ON to reserve for oneself, to have the first go at → M19 sl.
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