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hinderland|ˈhɪndəlænd| [f. hinder a.1 + land. In sense 1, prob. from some locality.] †1. A kind of cloth imported from some continental country: perh. from inland Germany. Obs.
1465Mann. & Househ. Exp. (Roxb.) 316 My mastyr bout..a pece of Hynderlond, prise the elle j. d. ob. 1812J. Smyth Pract. of Customs (1821) 134 Hinderlands, Brown, under 22½ inches in breadth, in a British-built Ship. 2. (pl.) = hinderling2 2 (for which hinderlans is a misprint in edd. of Scott).
1818[see hinderling2 2]. 1891Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker vi, ‘Set down upon your hinderlands’, cried my grandfather, almost savagely. |