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Meaning of hindlock | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A tress or lock of an individual's hair that covers the hind-part of the head.
  2. An animal's, particularly a horse's, tail.

Examples

“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: […]”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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