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hindlock

noun

Etymology

From hind + lock. Compare forelock.

  1. inherited from *lūkaną✻
  2. inherited from *lūkan✻
  3. inherited from lūcan
  4. inherited from locken
  5. derived from *lewg-✻
  6. inherited from *luką✻
  7. inherited from *lok✻
  8. inherited from loc
  9. inherited from lok
  10. compounded as hindlock — “hind + lock”

Definitions

  1. A tress or lock of an individual's hair that covers the hind-part of the head.

    • They have the hind-lock of hair known as the kudumi, put on sacred ashes, and paint the point between the eyebrows with a sandal paste dot.

  2. An animal's, particularly a horse's, tail.

    • […] so that those dilatory persons who have not been able to take the old gentleman by the forelock, might catch him as easily as a brother of the sister isle catches a scampering bull by the hindlock, or tail: […]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA