Made dark or black; darkened (archaic or dialectal term).
Past participle or adjective form of 'backen.' This extremely archaic form relates to making something dark or black, though 'blackened' is the modern standard form.
Finding 'backened' in old texts is like linguistic archaeology—it shows English speakers using variant pronunciations and spellings that completely died out, replaced by 'blackened.'
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