hinderlin
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
noun
Example Sentences
- "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?"
- "We downa bide the coercion of gude braid-claith about our hinderlans; […]"
- "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?"
- "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!"