backaching en · ADJ
Etymology
From back + aching.
Meanings
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Causing a pain in one's back.
Hedging, as I was learning, is not just skilled work but also cold, rugged, muddy, and backaching.
1993, National Geographic (volume 84? 184? page 110)Then the rest of us had to crawl on hands and knees slowly towards the tree picking up the things. It was dull and backaching.
1957, Charles Anscomb, Submariner, page 160: