Hinderlin

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Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of hinderling.; A worthless degenerate. Scotland

    "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?"

  2. 2
    Alternative spelling of hinderling.; The buttocks. Scotland, in-plural

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

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"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?"

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