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hindlocks

hindlocks is the plural of hindlock.

Meaning of hindlock

Noun

hindlock (plural hindlocks)

  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

Questions about hindlocks

What is hindlocks the plural of?
Hindlocks is the plural of hindlock.

Words near hindlocks in the dictionary

  1. hindlimb
  2. hindlimbs
  3. Hindlip
  4. Hindlish
  5. hindlock
  6. hindlocks
  7. hindlook
  8. Hindman
  9. Hindman's theorem
  10. Hindmans
  11. hindmargin

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