hindlock

noun — 2 senses

hindlock

noun

Etymology From hind + lock. Compare forelock.

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:

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