hindlock

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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noun

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

noun

An animal's, particularly a horse's, tail.

"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."
"[…] 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: […]"

From hind + lock. Compare forelock.

hindlocks (plural) hind-lock (alternative)

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