hindlock means A tress or lock of an individual's hair that covers the hind-part of the head.
Etymology
From hind + lock. Compare forelock.
noun
- 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.”
- 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: […]”