Hindlock
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 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: […]"
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From hind + lock. Compare forelock.
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