English Dictionary

goback

名詞

アメリカ英語 軽蔑的 歴史的 時々

(US, historical, sometimes derogatory) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.

日本語の意味

（アメリカ合衆国の歴史的な用例で、時に差別的な意味合いを含む）オレゴン・トレイルで西方に向かって移住を試みたが、挫折して東方へ戻った移民を指す名詞です。

At the county fair they told stories about a goback who had set out for Oregon but given up and trudged back east.

郡の祭りでは、オレゴンへ向けて出発したが挫折して東へ引き返した移民についての話が語られた。

意味（1）

(US, historical, sometimes derogatory) An emigrant heading west on the Oregon Trail who gave up and turned back to the east.

Although no subsequent year matched this high percentage of returnees, disconsolate gobacks remained a permanent feature of the overland emigrations […]

意味（2）

(beekeeping) A section of honeycomb that is unfinished and returned to the hive.

There may be one or a dozen or perhaps a hundred or so of supers with partly filled sections, and these are all designated as gobacks. They are either placed on top of other supers that are being built out from foundation, or upon colonies that seem to show a special aptitude for finishing up gobacks.

gobacks （ plural ）