hindlock

English

Alternative forms

• hind-lock

Etymology

From hind +‎ lock. Compare forelock.

Noun

hindlock (plural hindlocks)

1. 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.

2. 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: […]