hindlock

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noun

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

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Meanings

nounhindlock (plural hindlocks)

plural hindlocks · alternative hind-lock

  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.

    1909, E. Thupston, Casstes and Tribes of Southern India, page 49
  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: […]

    1822, The Brighton magazine, volume 1, page 235

Origin

From hind + lock. Compare forelock.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

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