hinderlin

plural hinderlins

1. Alternative spelling of hinderling.
   1. ScotlandA worthless degenerate.

      How say you, my lusty compeers; shall we permit a hinderlin to sit at board with us, and brand us with the name of cowards?

      1808, Joseph Strutt, [Walter Scott], “Section VII. Chapter II.”, in [Walter Scott], editor, Queenhoo-Hall, a Romance: And Ancient Times, a Drama. […], volume III, Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne & Co.] for John Murray, […]; and Archibald Constable & Co. […], →OCLC, page 155

   2. Scotlandin pluralThe buttocks.

      We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlans; […]

      1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter X, in Rob Roy. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 206

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      And although a bold front aye quells them, still they always are on the look-out to take you at disadvantage—in the louping of a dyke, for instance, wha will assure ye that they shall not kittle your hinderlins?

      1878, Michael Scott, The Cruise of the Midge, page 58

      My certes! gin ever it comes to a fecht wi' the Levellers, the dragooners has only to turn their horses and chairge hinderlins on, and—weel, Davie Veitch will no be there!

      1902, Samuel Rutherford Crockett, The Dark o’ the Moon: Being Certain Further Histories of the Folk Called “Raiders”, page 1902