hindlock
English
Alternative forms
- hind-lock
Etymology
From hind + lock. Compare forelock.
Noun
hindlock (plural hindlocks)
- A tress or lock of an individual's hair that covers the hind-part of the head.
- 1909, E. Thupston, Casstes and Tribes of Southern India, page 49:
- 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.
- An animal's, particularly a horse's, tail.
- 1822, The Brighton magazine, volume 1, page 235:
- […] 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: […]