Homophones for bacc(h)ar, backer

bacc(h)ar / backer [ˈbækɜr]

baccar – n. – a plant with an aromatic root yielding oil – variously identified by botanists; often applied to the genus Composite, a genus of smooth resinous or glutinous shrubs; family Compositae, having whitish or yellow flower heads in pyramidal panicles (a loose branching cluster of flowers as in oats). 

backer – n. – someone who helps with moral or financial support.

Quotes

bacc(h)ar

Pliny differentiated baccar from Nardum rusticum or asaron (Asarum europaeum L.), a very different plant (with which, however, baccar was identified by some)…

~The Lydians and their World (2010) – Nicholas D. Cahill

backer

We pretended to pull ourselves together to please him, but I couldn’t blind my eyes to the fact that I was likely to lose my money, because the white elephant had turned into a quite ordinary Zebu or Brahman cow, or at the best a two-humped or Bactrian dromedary, in any case, an animal entirely unfitted by nature to carry the money of a cautious backer.

~The Diary of a Drug Fiend (1922) – Aleister Crowley